Catherine Lawton

I have brought together my experience, research, and love of words in the new book Write & Publish Organically: Dig Deep, Tend the Soil, Help Newness Emerge. I am excited about it and believe this book will help and encourage writers and publishers at all levels.

I have brought together my experience, research, and love of words in the new book Write & Publish Organically: Dig Deep, Tend the Soil, Help Newness Emerge. I am excited about it and believe this book will help and encourage writers and publishers at all levels.

In Glimpsing Glory (2020) I share my recent poetry of relating, communing, living, dying, praying, and word playing. I hope my writing will encourage others to experience the present moments more fully, and to grow in awareness - and response to - the constant call of love, goodness, and beauty.

In all my writings I find myself exploring the depths of our relationships with - and need for - God, nature, and each other.

I started "writing" as a toddler - scribbling in the margins of my father's theology books. Later, I made up poems and stories to entertain my little sister and friends. I first had a poem published when I was twelve - in a national children's periodical. After that, the inner urge and outward call only grew stronger. I continued writing poetry, articles, fiction and nonfiction.

Much of my inspiration has come on mountain trails and meadows, in gardens and gatherings, and along rivers and salty shores. To me, life is an upward journey, a revealing adventure, and an unfolding story.

With a BA in English and training in education, theology and music, in my young adult years, besides raising children, I worked at various times as a substitute teacher, a private piano teacher, a freelance writer and editor, and a licensed minister in the Church of the Nazarene.

In 1999 I founded Cladach Publishing and for twenty-plus years I have worked to give opportunities to talented authors, producing books that show God at work in our world and people getting involved to work with God.

Most recently I finished a masters degree at Northwind Theological Seminary with a concentration in Faith-based Publishing.