Early on, Catherine Lee learned that the best stories are about relationships, good and bad. While a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, she wrote about a teenager who had shot and killed his abusive father. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, The DC Line, Currents, and Foreign Policy magazine’s Guide to Graduate Education. She covered education for a weekly paper in Washington, DC, and worked for 17 years at the Catholic University of America as a writer, editor, and director of communications. A DC resident for almost 30 years, she returned to her hometown of Philadelphia, where she freelances as a writer and editor. She and her husband have three children and four grandchildren.