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Cathy Wittmeyer

Cathy Wittmeyer is a poet, mother, lawyer and engineer from Buffalo, New York. She works in Austria and lives in a wooden house across the border with her adorable family. She earned her MFA in poetry from Carlow University in 2020. She is the founder of Word to Action, a climate-themed-poetry retreat and performance in Liechtenstein. See more of her work at cathywittmeyer.com

“A Night at the Paradise Motel, Somewhere, California,” and “Wow,” poems featured in Sixth Issue, Art Meets Science: Examining Conservation & Biodiversity