Catherine Kanjer Kapphahn
is an award winning author, educator and speaker. Her memoir Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me received The Center for Fiction’s Christopher Doheny Award, and was published by Audible. Her manuscript Miseducation was long listed for the Steel Toe Books Poetry Award. Catherine received grants from the Queens Arts Fund, Queens Council on the Arts and City Artist Corps. Her writing has appeared on WNYC’s Morning Edition, Queensbound, Prom Queens Anthology, Motherwell Magazine, Croatia Week, Newtown Literary, The Handbook of Disability-Affirmative Systemic Therapy, the Feminist Press Anthology This is the Way We Say Goodbye, Astoria Life, and CURE Magazine. Catherine is an adjunct lecturer at City University of New York at Lehman College in the Bronx. Catherine is also a yoga teacher. She grew up near the mountains in Colorado and now lives between two bridges, beside the East River, in Queens, New York with her husband, two sons and rescue dog.
