Catherine Marshall

Catherine Marshall enjoyed a thirty-year career helping small businesses and nonprofits thrive. But she discovered writing memoir helped her reflect on how her childhood experiences later affected her ability to choose supportive partners and form a stable family. In 2015, she wrote her first memoir, The Easter Moose: One Family’s Journey Adopting through Foster Care. Her second memoir, No Longer Needed, to be published in 2026, is set in the 1970s when Catherine left a steady job in the Bay Area to be with a handsome, charismatic man, travel through Mexico, and start a business with him. Catherine’s memoirs explore themes of domestic violence, gender roles in marriage, surviving family trauma, heartbreak, and resilience.

Catherine Marshall’s creative nonfiction short stories have been featured in anthologies and magazines including the Noyo River Review, Tales of Our Lies, Fostering Families Today, and the Writers of the Mendocino Coast. She resides with her husband in Mendocino, California, where she provides pro bono technical assistance to local nonprofits and serves on the board of directors for the Writers of the Mendocino Coast.