Cathy MacHold worked in the food industry while attending college, writing training manuals for several corporations which were implemented into the grocery store market place. Following graduation, as an employee of Hewlett-Packard, Cathy worked in procurement and planning, but it was her passion for gourmet meals and great conversation that led her to write her first dinner club book, Gourmet Nights, self-published in 1998.
Cathy developed Writing with Hemingway: A Writer’s Exercise Book as a unique concept for writing exercises and prompts. As an Ernest Hemingway aficionado, she realized how much aspiring writers could learn from the famous author’s life as they practiced writing exercises to hone their own talents. Cathy has led workshops and has taught adult school creative writing classes using the concepts found in Writing with Hemingway: A Writer’s Exercise Book. Cathy presented her teaching ideas as a participant on the Teaching Hemingway day panel at the XVII Biennial International Ernest Hemingway Conference held in Oak Park, Illinois, on the eve of Hemingway’s 117th birthday. Most recently she presented a paper, Oh, Those Hemingway Clothes! at the American University in Paris during the 2018 International Hemingway Society Conference. She is in process of translating her book into Spanish.
Cathy earned a degree in Communication Studies from California State University Sacramento and holds an Adult Education Teaching Credential. She lives in northern California with her husband Ken. Her second dinner club book, The Vintage Feast, will be available in late 2018.
