Cathleen With

About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation writer
Location Vancouver, BC, Canada
Introduction Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison (Penguin 2009) Skids (Arsenal Pulp 2006)
Interests writing, traveling, novels, fiction, short fiction, writing in Canada, publishing in Canada, stories, how to make a living writing, reading
Favorite Movies Housekeeping, Boy A, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, A Beautiful Mind, Never Let Me Go, Camille Claudel, The Quiet Earth, La Boheme, Rent, A Chorus Line, The Magic Flute, La Traviata, Gods and Monsters, Romeo and Juliet
Favorite Music The Knife, Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, Fever Ray, Be Good Tanyas, Stevie Nicks, Devotchka, Bonobo, Kate Bush, Beirut, Bat for Lashes, Brazilian Girls, Seu Jorge, David Bowie, The Clash, Broken Social Scene, Plumtree, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, The Flaming Lips, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, NiN, Kelly and the Kellygirls, Neko Case, Stellastar
Favorite Books Beloved, Housekeeping, Woman on the Edge of Time, Fall on Your Knees, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Eating Animals, The Bone People, A Fine Balance, The Road, The Golden Mean, The Year of the Flood, The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, Whit, The Wars, The Best Thing for You, Gwendolyn Macewen: The Early Poems, The Art of Fiction, A Passion for Narrative, Spit Delaney's Island, The Indigo Dress and other stories, A Wrinkle in Time, Saturday the 12th of October, Tuck Everlasting, The 9 Lives of Opalina, Hit Me with a Rainbow, Good Times, Bad Times, There Must be a Pony, Some Kind of Hero, Wild Dogs, The Frozen Thames, The Quiet American, Everything that Rises Must Converge, As I Lay Dying, Marine Life, Two Strand River, The Good Body, The God of Small Things, Lucy, The Lesser Blessed, Taken, Tamarind Mem, Silas Marner, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, any and all Dickens, any and all George Eliot, any and all Bronte