Cate DeLuca

I wrote my first stories in first grade and have always journaled and read – and been read to – extensively. I took creative writing and children’s literature in high school, placed in a fiction competition as well as in a local poetry contest.

As a Masters and Doctoral student I had to write plenty of academic papers, a thesis and a dissertation, parts of which involved good storytelling. The more I write, the more I notice the effect of reading magical realists Rushdie and Murakami.

As a member of the NorCal Historical Novel Society I submitted works in progress, attended workshops at the national conference. In 2017 I was a Flash Fiction Finalist in the Golden Quill Writing Contest of the SLO Night Writers.

I traveled the world with my family as a child, trained and worked as a classical archaeologist in college, did graphic art, editorial, cartooning and layout work after college. I then taught Latin, Greek, and ancient literature, Earth Science and undergraduate geography for a total of thirty years, with free-lance art, scenery work and graphic design thrown in.

All these adventures – plus being a wife, friend, choir member, mom and now a Nana – have formed the “mulch” (as Ursula K. LeGuin puts it) for my stories.