Cathy Converse is a bestselling author with multiple books featured on the BC Bestseller List. With over forty years of writing experience, she has authored, co-authored, and co-edited seven books, in addition to writing numerous magazine cover stories, academic journal articles, and technical manuals. Her fourth book, Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet, was a finalist for the 2009 BC Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award. Her work Against the Current received an Honourable Mention for the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing.

A former chair of social sciences, Cathy was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Camosun College and helped establish the women’s studies curriculum and programs. She is also recognized in Canadian Who's Who for her contributions to historical biography.

Originally from the sunny shores of California and Hawai'i, Cathy has spent her adult life along British Columbia’s rugged coastline. A lover of the sea, she enjoys surfing, white-water kayaking, canoeing, and sailing, having explored the Pacific from Panama to Alaska.