ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Catherine Hiller’s award-winning, provocative fiction has always been fueled by passion. In her first novel, An Old Friend from High School, a happily married young wife is confounded to find herself in love with a woman. In The Adventures of Sid Sawyer, Tom Sawyer’s half-brother Sid enjoys kissing cousin Mary. Hiller’s short story collection, Skin: Sensual Tales, explored controversial topics and won praise from John Updike. She is also the author of the controversial Just Say Yes: A Marijuana Memoir. Hiller’s 10 th
book, Cybill Unbound, is about the taboo sexual adventures of an older woman, was recently published by Heliotrope Books.
She has been published in The New York Times, AARP Magazine, Ms. Penthouse, The Girlfriend, NextTribe, the Westchester Review, Huffington Post,
and The Antioch Review. She is co-producer of the documentary films “Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider” (Sundance) and “Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas” (PBS). Her Substack is The Pleasure Principle.
Hiller has received two Syndicated Fiction PEN Awards, and two Westchester Library Washington Irving Book Awards. Her novel 17 Morton Street, was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection. She was also a Yaddo Fellow.
She has been published by St. Martin’s sPress, Pocket Books, and Carroll & Graf, including two children’s books, six novels, a collection of short stories, and a memoir.
She’s been featured in The New York Times: Smoking Marijuana for 50 Years, and Turning Out Just Fine (Published 2015) and the first chapter of her book, Just Say Yes: A Marijuana Memoir was excerpted in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Her editing service, Executive Editor, is now in its 15 th year. She started out by editing academic books and went on to edit business reports for the Economist Intelligence Unit. Since then, she has edited books on psychology, community activism, the therapeutic use of hallucinogens, and many other subjects. She has ghost-written books by famous financiers. Hiller graduated summa cum laude from Brooklyn College and got a PhD in English from Brown University. She has lived in Brooklyn and Greenwich Village. She now lives with her husband in Westchester County and Sag Harbor, NY. She has three sons, two granddaughters and a dog. For more information, please visit: https://www.catherinehiller.net/
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