Welcome, friend.
I’m so happy you are here.
Author.
Cathy Rigg is a writer with roots that run deep in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. It’s where her people come from on her mother’s side—going back seven generations—and since moving away she swears those ancestors call to her, insisting their stories be told.
It’s something she can hardly resist. Her debut novel, That Which Binds Us, is forthcoming from Keylight Books in June of 2025. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Still: The Journal, Clinch Mountain Review, Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit, and short stories were nominated for Best of the Net and have been finalists for the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and Lit/South. She is proud to be part of the 2025 Women of Appalachia Project featuring “Appalachia’s finest literary, visual and performing women artists” and her short story, The Knowing, will appear in v. 16 of the associated literary journal, Women Speak.