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Cathy Rigg

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in Wise, Virginia, The United States

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https://cathyrigg.com/

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Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

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Lee Smith, Ron Rash, Charles Frazier, Barbara Kingsolver ...more

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August 2007

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Cathy Rigg is an author and maker with far more interests than she has time. Born and raised in Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains, her debut novel, THAT WHICH BINDS US, was published by Keylight Books in June of 2025. A work of historical fiction, the story is set in those beloved mountains and centers around five people whose lives intersect during the tumultuous years of the Civil War.

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I’VE LONG FOLLOWED Maria Popova’s The Marginalian, an ad-free blog that originated as Brain Pickings in 2006. I do not exaggerate when I say nearly every time I click on her accompanying newsletter, I find myself sucked into the most beautiful vortex of art, poetry, science, and philosophy on a theme that always seems to center and refresh me. This morning she wrote again of a topic she addresses

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That Which Binds Us

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The Calamity Club

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