Cat Ellington
Cat Ellington is an American songwriter, composer, casting director, poet, author, and entrepreneur from Chicago, IL. She is best known for her creative contributions to the diverse industries and fields of music, movies, art, and literature.
Cat Ellington's professional credits list a library of nonfiction books, including the Reviews by Cat Ellington series, The Making of Dual Mania, More Imaginative Than Ordinary Speech, Memoirs in Gogyohka, You Can Quote Me On That, and The Cat Ellington Sheet Music Collection. Ellington's credentials—in film and music—include her work as executive casting director on the psychological thriller, "Dual Mania," and its soundtrack—on which she wrote five original songs: "The Book of Us," "I'm Still in Love," "Something in Your Eyes," "Gett Out," and "I Do." Incidentally, Ellington also co-composed Instrumentals: Music from the Motion Picture Dual Mania, a compilation of her original instrumental music previously performed with vocals for the film soundtrack.
The award-winning artist enjoys reading, listening to music, cooking, collecting vintage and modern charm bracelets, watching movies and classic TV shows, sailing, jet-skiing, playing tennis, and eating frozen yogurt — lots of it.
Cat currently lives in Chicago with her husband, filmmaker Joseph Strickland, their three children, and a pet Pomeranian.
Works
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Memoirs in Gogyohka: A Book of Short Poems and Memoirs
Hot on the heels of More Imaginative Than Ordinary Speech: The Poetry of Cat Ellington comes a riveting and remarkably uplifting compilation of free verse that was erected to witness the uncommon life of its distinctive authorship in the captivating art of Gogyohka poetry.
Introducing Memoirs in Gogyohka, an alluring, albeit double-edged, biographical account inspired by the diaries of Cat Ellington.
Highlighting a selected assemblage of Ellington’s random diary entries from the 1980s to the present, Memoirs in Gogyohka provides the reader with a first-hand look into the journals of one of the most compelling women in the arts as it strolls through the courtyards of her many life experiences, including interracial dating, family turmoil, inner-city living, Black-on-Black crime, eroticism, lesbianism, anti-feminism, and much more.
Flanked by Cat Ellington’s Prologues and Epilogues, the works of Gogyohka featured on these elegantly decorated pages include “The Ol’ Double Standard,” “He Called Me ‘Baby Golden’,” “A Cut Through Bone and Marrow,” “The Revelers,” “How to Love a White Man,” “Right Back Atcha,” “The Iceman,” “She Flew In On Her Broom,” “The Bitch Called Karma,” “Amazon Women on the Earth,” “Snake Eyes,” “Lying and Denying,” “Single Black Female,” "Serenaded by Kenny G," and many, many more.
Hardly a depiction for the faint-hearted, Memoirs in Gogyohka packs a one-two punch of emotions as it proudly carries the history of its author on the broad shoulders of intrigue, amusement, insight, and admiration, while daring to prove the blessedness of her distinction where the written word is to be regarded.
Poetry by Cat Ellington. Unconventional beauty.
Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Works (Books 1-9)
Reviews by Cat Ellington: A Trilogy of Unique Critiques #3
Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 8
Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 9
Reviews by Cat Ellington: A Trilogy of Unique Critiques #2
Strike a Prose: A Framework of Memories and Commentaries in Poetry
Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 7
Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 6
The Five-Star Review: A Collection of Cat Ellington's Top-Rated Book Reviews from 1981-2021
Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 5
The Cat Ellington Sheet Music Collection
You Can Quote Me On That: A Collection of Quotes by Cat Ellington
Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 4
Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 3
More Imaginative Than Ordinary Speech: The Poetry of Cat Ellington
Reviews by Cat Ellington: A Trilogy of Unique Critiques #1
Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 1
Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 2
The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style
Reviews by Cat Ellington - The Complete Anthology Limited Edition Holiday Gift Set (Books 1 & 2)
Awards and Recognition
- 2019 Vegas Movie Award for Best Song ["I Do" Written by Cat Ellington, Produced by Cat Ellington and Princeton Brown]
- 2019 Honorable Mention from the Vegas Movie Awards for Best Song ["I Do"]
- 2019 Vegas Movie Award [Nominee] for Best Song on a Motion Picture Soundtrack ["I Do"]
- Mindfield Film Festival (Albuquerque) - 2019 Bronze Award [Winner] for Best Feature Film: "Dual Mania"
- Pinnacle Film Awards - 2018 Silver Award [Winner] for Best Feature Film: "Dual Mania"
- Royal Wolf Film Awards - 2018 Best of the Month Award - October [Winner] "Dual Mania" for Best Feature Film
- Royal Wolf Film Awards - 2018 Best of the Month Award - September [Winner] "Dual Mania" for Best Feature Film
- 2018 AUTHORSdb Cover Contest [Semi-finalist] "Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 2"
- 2018 Alternative Film Festival Awards [Nominee] for Best Mystery/Suspense/Thriller: "Dual Mania"
Press and Media Mentions
- SCREEN Magazine article: Strickland Targeting Fall to Film Latest Thriller, The Crimson Sun
- Reviewer IndieView with Cat Ellington
- Book Reader Magazine Interview with Author Cat Ellington
- Pretty Hot Books Interview - Author Cat Ellington Discusses New Book Series
- Author Cat Ellington Talks with My Book Place About Reviews by Cat Ellington Series
- Interviews with Writers Interview with Cat Ellington
- Cat Ellington Talks New Book Series with Awesome Gang