Cat Urbain

Cat Urbain was first inspired to write children’s books while working at Weston Woods Studios where she directed and edited films and watched movies such as Where the Wild Things Are, again and again. Cat also worked as Executive Director for the Connecticut Storytelling Center, a media educator for the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, and a grant writer for the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps. While volunteering for a family weekend, one of the campers asked her to write a book about a boy, a horse, and a ghost, so she did.

Diego, Whynd, and The Block Island Ghost, was influenced by Cat’s experiences working in haunted hotels on Block Island and living in Nicaragua. Her first novel, Manuel and the Lobsterman, was published by Front Street, Inc., an imprint of Boyds Mills Press. Cat currently works as a writer for emergency medicine doctors at the Yale School of Medicine. Cat lives in a beach house in Connecticut and visits Block Island every summer with high hopes that she will one day see the ghost of Clossie Mott.