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Catherine Matthews is an award-winning Pacific Northwest author. Through her novels, she tells the stories of strong women finding the courage to face the storm and live their dreams—usually in the company of a faithful hound.

Catherine’s debut novel, Releasing the Reins, earned first place in the 2024 BookFest Awards for Women’s Fiction Mystery and Suspense and was the 2024 Fall Pencraft Award Best Book for Women’s Fiction. It is a finalist for the 2024 BookLife Prize for Mystery and Suspense and was a 2022 Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA) Literary Contest Finalist.

Her essay, Deeper Than Social Connections, is featured in the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 (Jennifer Haupt, Ed.), winne ...more

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