Cathy Rigg Monetti is a writer, blogger and maker who heartily advocates the joys of living a creative life. Her work has appeared in Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit; Still: the Journal and Clinch Mountain Review, and short stories were finalists for the Doris Betts Fiction Prize (2023) and Lit/South (2023). She has recently finished her first novel, historical fiction set in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, about five people whose lives intersect against the backdrop of the Civil War.