Literary consultant/fiction writer, Cat Kurtz...

As a literary consultant, I work with writers at any stage—from brainstorming, to re-organizing text, to line editing. I assist with process as much as product. Every writer has an individualized way of creating. Together we’ll establish how you write, what your goals are, and how we can best work to complete your project. Sometimes I play the role of instructor and editor rolled into one. Sometimes I play the role of book doctor. It all depends on what you want, how you work and where you are in the project.
 
My editing is informed by the fact that I too am a writer with my own rituals, strengths, struggles, and my own amazing pair of editors who shape both my process and understanding of writing. I love my job because each new writer re-frames my way of seeing and offers me the challenge of crystallizing and maximizing that view. And so the diversity of literary voices grows.

I have taught writing and worked as a writing consultant at the University of Colorado in Boulder for ten years. In addition, I work as a freelance editor, writing tutor, and founder/senior editor of sub-scribe online magazine. I earned my undergraduate degree in literature from the University of California Santa Barbara and my Masters degree in fiction from CU, Boulder. Currently, I am writing a non-fiction account of the spiritual and women’s revolution begun by Buddhist nuns fighting for the right to ordain in South East Asia.