In addition to writing children’s stories, Cat Urbain writes grants for non-profit organizations, including the Hole in the Wall Camps for children with serious illnesses. She also teaches creative writing to middle school students. In her past life she taught dance at an art school in southern France and at a boarding school in the Adirondacks; she worked as a researcher for Channel Thirteen/WNET and Scholastic, served as Director of the Connecticut Storytelling Center and she made several trips to Nicaragua to produce a videotape, The Children Want Peace. Cat fell in love with children’s books while working at Weston Woods Studios, where her job was to watch “Where the Wild Things Are”, over and over.

Cat spent a year in Rockport, Maine working at an international film school where she ate lobster once a week and came up with a question—what would a Hispanic kid from New Haven do in a place like Rockport?

Her middle grade novel, Manuel and the Lobsterman was released in November, 2008 by Front Street, a division of Boyds Mills Press. Her short story, Mississippi Chameleon was a finalist in the 2002 Tassy Walden Awards. She also has had several articles published in Milford Living Magazine. Cat has a master’s degree in art education from Wesleyan University. 

CAT’S BOOKS:

• Manuel and the Lobsterman, Front Street 2008