Cat Winters

Cat Winters is an award-winning, critically acclaimed author of ghostly historical novels for teens and adults and a picture book biography for children. She is also a poet and a co-leader of the Oregon chapter of Authors Against Book Bans. She has been named a Morris Award finalist, a Bram Stoker Award nominee, and an Oregon Spirit Book Award winner, and her young adult novels have appeared on Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Booklist best-of-the-year lists, as well as numerous state lists.

Her debut picture book, Cut!: How Lotte Reiniger and a Pair of Scissors Revolutionized Animation, written as C.E. Winters, illustrated by Matt Schu, was a 2024 Oregon Book Awards finalist and a 2024 Oregon Spirit Book Award honor book. Bank Street named the picture book to their 2024 Best Children's Books of the Year list, where it was noted for Outstanding Merit.

Her poem "A Moth with Hummingbird Wings" was published in the Winter 2024 issue of Door Is a Jar Literary Magazine, and four more of her poems will appear in the publication's Spring 2025 issue.

Winters lives in Oregon.

https://www.catwinters.com/