Bio

Catherine Kapphahn’s Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me received The Center for Fiction’s Christopher Doheny Award. It was also shortlisted for a Del Sol Press Prize. It is now published by Audible. She has received artist grants from the Queens Council on the Arts and City Artist Corps. Her writing has appeared in Motherwell Magazine, Newtown Literary, the Feminist Press Anthology This is the Way We Say Goodbye,and CURE Magazine. Catherine is an adjunct lecturer at City University of New York at Lehman College in the Bronx, where her students’ brave stories continue to inspire her. Catherine also is a yoga teacher and public speaker. She grew up near the mountains in Colorado and now lives between two bridges in Queens, New York with her husband and two sons.