Cathy Olliffe-Webster was born in 1960 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The daughter of a railroad engineer, she moved many times during her childhood, always seeking permanence in the books she read (her favourites being Nancy Drew, the Black Stallion and Harriet the Spy). After studying journalism, she continued her gypsy ways, working at community newspapers in Gravenhurst, Milton, Port Perry, Peterborough, Haliburton, Huntsville and Bracebridge. She also worked for a national medical newspaper, Family Practice, in downtown Toronto. After 20+ years of award-winning reporting, she decided she'd had enough of covering bowling banquets and curling bonspiels and turned to the graphic design side of the business. As outsourcing and the internet took a toll on traditional newspaper publishing, she retired and decided to do what she'd always dreamed of doing: write a novel.Inspiration for "Green Eggs & Weezie" came when her marriage of 18 years ended. One night during a particularly bad fight, she whacked him with a children's book - Green Eggs & Ham - and wound up going to jail for the night, losing custody of her children, her home and everything she had once held dear. As she followed the maze of the criminal justice system she met a surprising number of women just like herself: boring, middle-aged, middle-class wives and mothers whose lives fell apart when their husbands left. She decided to write a book to warn other women not to make the same mistakes she made. It doesn't matter how many friends or family members you have, when something like this happens, women can feel terribly alone.Weezie turned out to have a life of her own. Naive, funny, down-to-earth and absolutely human, Weezie became an ordinary hero whose indomitable spirit helped her through some terrible times.Like Weezie, things turned around for author Cathy. She met a wonderful man in 2005 and they married five years later. Her and husband Dave now live in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, where she is writing novel #2 and is pursuing a mostly happily-ever-after writerly life. She has a surprisingly good relationship with her ex-husband (her lawyer said they were poster children for how divorcing couples ought to get along) and is chest-bustingly proud of her two handsome sons, Angus and Sam.Recently she published a collection of her short stories, called "Friday Girls."