Cathleen With is a writer from Vancouver, and a graduate of the UBC MFA
Creative Writing program. She has travelled extensively in SE Asia and
Northern Canada where she has worked as a teacher for Korean children,
Khmer NGO workers, Arctic teenagers, and Thai street children.

While abroad, Cathleen got to see free opera while writing weekender articles
for The Korea Herald, and dabbled in writing for an alternative Cambodian
‘zine. Skids, her short story collection about street kids from the Davie Village
to the Downtown Eastside was short-listed for the 2007 Relit Award. She was
also short-listed for the 2006 Western Magazine Award for her story, “Carny”
which was featured in Humanist Perspectives. She has been published in
several literary journals, including The Antigonish Review, Grain, and
Fireweed. Though her work is fiction, many of the stories in Skids are based
on her friends’ voices, some now gone, and her own experiences battling
addictions and depression in her youth. Cathleen has also trained as a
Learning Assistance, Drama in Education, and English teacher, and enjoys
working one on one with alternative youth who have trouble adapting to the
public school system. She is currently a part-time special education teacher
in Vancouver, and also travels to Seoul to teach writing to children. Her first
novel, Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison, is forthcoming with Penguin
Canada, Jan 2009. She is represented by Denise Bukowski of The Bukowski
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