My Work

Orphan Train collides with the book, Orange is the New Black in Manifest Danger.  This historical fiction, based the true story of my grandmother’s incarceration for the crime of fornication centers  on nine-teen year old Annie, who  in 1932 must fight a system, her brother-in-law, and her self-perception to bring her baby home and heal the family.  The setting is the same prison Wally Lamb wrote about in Couldn’t Keep it to Myself, I’ll Fly Away, and others.  Fans of Ann Patchett and Christina Baker Kline will enjoy this story.

I'm a recovering politician, having served as the first woman mayor of Islamorada, in the Florida Keys. After leaving office I wrote speeches and op-eds for candidates andd seated officials up to state level. I suppose as a political writer I've been writing fiction all along. I have a passion for stories about women  who buck the odds and challenge a system.

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My writing community is important to me. Locally, I'm a member of The Writer's Colony of Delray Beach, Fl.  I'm also a member of Florida Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers, and Historical Fiction Society.

I facilitate an Open Read for Writers the 3rd Wednesday of the each month, (Oct- May) at the Delray Beach Public Library.  The program is  open to the public. Writerly folks come to read original work or just listen and enjoy. Contact me for more information about Open Read.

I have a tattoo on my inner right arm. written in Sanskrit, which reads, Sat-Chit-Ananda. In English, it means TRUTH, CONSCIOUSNESS and BLISS.

I am about gratitude, acceptance, and giving back to a universe which has been so generous to me.

I am grateful for my supportive husband, daughter and four crazy, chaotic and strong-minded grandchildren.  They are the light of my life and they're going to set the world on fire - if not the house. 

And I’m grateful to you, for visiting my site and following my journey as I write,  MANIFEST DANGER

CHill-

Catherina

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