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.