Catte Coelho has always lived surrounded by stories, first in the books she devoured as a child and later in the worlds she began creating to fill the quiet spaces between reads.
Because books were expensive and arrived slowly, she started writing so her imagination wouldn’t lose its rhythm. Somewhere in that gap between waiting and wanting to keep feeling, the author was born.
Her first story appeared in seventh grade: a handwritten play about Hades and Aphrodite that never made it to the stage but earned enough applause to convince her she could build worlds of her own. She never stopped after that. She moved through blogs, diaries and small everyday chronicles until, in 2017, she finally decided to devote herself to fiction.
What drives Catte are emotions, especially the ones that live just under the skin. The small things. The silences that speak louder than words, the forehead kiss when a heart is tired, the kind of love that hides inside the softest gestures.
In her books, healing is always a central thread, along with the search for belonging and the most human form of love. Her style shifts between emotional, humorous and sensual, guided by whatever each scene demands. Though she may seem extroverted, Catte is deeply introverted, always facing her nerves with a “why not?” and a stubborn desire to experience everything that scares her. She writes in the late hours of the night, hugs her cats and dog far too often to count, lives on coffee with milk and starts every chapter to the sound of “This Is What Dreams Are Made Of” from Lizzie McGuire—a ritual that anchors her to creation.
She lives in Lisbon with her parents, works at an international company in the quality field and spends her free time between books, early-2000s playlists, long conversations with friends and strolls with her boyfriend—preferably on the way to sushi. Her dreams remain quietly tucked away, not for lack of ambition, but because she believes some desires need silence to take shape.
Catte is in love with the book community, especially with genres like reverse harem, dark romance, monster romance and omegaverse, genres she actively champions on her bookstagram.
She describes herself as spontaneous, empathetic and curious. Inside, she calls herself an adorable chaos—the place where everything is born and where, luckily, only her stories wander.
Above all, Catte writes to give readers what she sometimes lacked in her own difficult moments: an embrace, a refuge, an escape, the promise that healing exists and that happy endings can happen—even for those who stopped believing in them.