Cathie Beck

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BornAugust 3, 1955
Alma mater Louisiana Tech University
OccupationJournalist

Cathie Beck (born August 3, 1955) is an American journalist and creative writer based in Denver, Colorado. Her memoir Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship, which she self-published in October 2009, [1] [2] was published by Hyperion Books in July 2010. [3] [4] [5]

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Biography

Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Beck has lived in Indianapolis, Indiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Boulder, Colorado. She currently resides in Denver, Colorado. [6]

Graduate of the Louisiana Tech University Journalism Department, [7] and the Creative Writing Graduate Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Beck has written for the Daily Camera (Boulder), the Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News, [8] The Denver Business Journal, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Writer's Digest. She presently contributes to a number of major publications, including The Denver Post, and is “The Wine Wench” columnist for ColoradoBiz magazine [9] and KUVO in Denver, Colorado.

She is the recipient of the Louisiana Press Women's and Denver Press Woman's Writing Awards, the Scripps-Howard Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the University of Colorado-Louisiana Tech University's Dean's Award for Writing. [10]

On June 30, 2023, Beck was found guilty for failure to pay child support. [11]

Literary Influences

Beck's literary influences include Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Parker, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Raymond Carver, Barbara Kingsolver, Frank McCourt, and David Sedaris. [12]

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