Cathy Ann Rogers has a penchant for creating literary characters who imitate reality through their skewed sense of justice as well as their bittersweet victories. Cathy attributes the shaping of her writer’s prowess to her solitary upbringing as an only child. Armed with a library card from her neighborhood branch in Cincinnati, she spent her childhood absorbed in suspenseful scenes depicted within the fiction of Christie and Conan-Doyle. Simultaneously, she built a mental library of potential plots while eavesdropping on the conversations of adults who discussed everything from Hollywood to History. The result of these blended influences is her fascination with plot twists and multi-generational storytelling in novels. Following the dictates of her left-brain, Cathy pursued a degree and graduate certificate in accounting, establishing a tax and bookkeeping service for entrepreneurs. However, she maintained her right-brain passion for storytelling and puzzle solving. She sees a correlation between the discerning pertinent records from the irrelevant in accounting to assembling clues to solve a mystery. Both require the organization of information for a final solution. Following the publication of her first novel, Here Lies Buried, Cathy brought life to this retrospective collection of new and previously-published short stories written over the last twenty years. She is currently working on the other writing projects due to appear before 2015. Cathy weaves her tales from her Arizona desert townhome in the company of her Bichon Frises, Whitney and Sophie.