Catherine Ricketts

Catherine Ricketts is an essayist, songwriter, and writing instructor. Her non–fiction on the arts, grief, joy, and spirituality appears in the Kenyon Review Online, the Ploughshares blog, Electric Literature, The Christian Century, Image, The Millions, Paste, and the music blog for the NPR-affiliate WXPN. She studied writing at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MFA in non–fiction from Seattle Pacific University. Her first book is The Mother Artist, a work of literary non–fiction on motherhood and artistic practice. Find her on Instagram at @bycatherinericketts.