Catherine Gammon is author of the novels The Martyrs, The Lovers (2023), China Blue (2021), Sorrow (2013), and Isabel Out of the Rain (1991), and the story collections The Gunman and the Carnival (2024) and Beauty and the Beast (2012). Catherine's fiction has appeared in literary journals for many years, most recently in The Missouri Review, New England Review, and The Cincinnati Review, among many others. More at her Substack @nonabiding.