Jamie Cattanach

Writer, Portland, Oregon

Jamie Cattanach is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer whose work has been featured in Fodor’s, SELF Magazine and Ms. Magazine, as well as literary journals including Fourth Genre, Colorado Review and Thin Air Magazine, among others. Her in-progress memoir was chosen for the Manuscript Mentorship program at the 2022 Tin House Winter Workshop. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Written by Jamie Cattanach

Hands holding freshly picked blackberries, with a background of green leaves and a black and white spotted dress.

Sweetness and light

After years of subsisting on protein bars and iceberg lettuce, berry-picking brought me home to my body

by Jamie Cattanach