Catherine Vance

Catherine Agrella lives and teaches writing in Houston Texas, where she also does social justice work. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and was a recipient of the Dobie Paisano Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. She is completing a memoir, "Cheated," which is about infidelity, child sexual abuse, marriage and divorce, metoo--all of that. One of the pieces from the memoir was named a Notable Essay in the 2019 Memoir Magazine metoo contest. She is the author of the short story collection, The Orchard Camp.

Shorthand

When I went to live with my three-fourths sister Dora, I was fourteen years old.
Dora and I had the same father, and our mothers were sisters. Her mother died in the flu epidemic of 1918, and a few years later Daddy married her younger sibling, my mother Isabel.
When I was four, he died, leaving nine children from two wives.
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