Catherine G. Tripp
If Catherine’s writings were expressed in one color, it would be yellow, bright as sunlight, highlighting the salient portions, deconstructing air brushed stories, and finding humor and courage in the unloved corners. A scribbler since childhood, Catherine has published financial columns, short stories, poetry, essays and performed on Mask Monologues and Coffee Talk. Since leaving banking behind, she seeks to inspire readers to notice people, to laugh, to question accepted history and shift the dominant paradigm. She lives in Hawaii where she is writing a historical novel about a brave entrepreneurial abolitionist, Ms. Mary Ellen Pleasant, as well as polishing her craft through conferences and workshops.
Social Media Links:
Writers Website: https://www.cgtrippenterprises.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cgtrippwriter/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinetrippwriter/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/catherinetrippwriter
Substack: https://substack.com/@cgtripp
Catherine’s Publications and CV
Publications
• January 2023
Link to poems: https://parakeetmagazine.wordpress.com/january-2023
Parakeet Magazine published two poems. “Heaven must be filled with cats” and “Cats are so much like us”
Excerpt: “Heaven must be filled with cats / Filled with that tufty twinkling trust / Rare and special and earned…”
• November 2022
Memoirist.org published this memoir vignette “Her name was Tera”, a tribute to the author’s fierce and loving mother.
Link to Story: https://www.memoirist.org/post/her-name-was-tera-by-catherine-tripp
Excerpt: When I was in my twenties, I surprised my Mom by stating loudly and dramatically that I hated camping. As a matter of fact, I went down on one knee, shook my fist at the air and proclaimed in my best Scarlett O’Hara that: “I will nevah go campin’ agin!”… I hated the ticks though Mom coolly drove them out with the hot tip of her extra long cigarette. They were menthol Mores, which I always thought was a wish unfulfilled.”
• September 2022
Sad Girls Literary Blog published “Embracify 2026” a short story about the perfect vaccine in the future and its unique side effect.
Link to Story: https://www.sadgirlsclublit.com/post/embracify-2026-catherine-g-tripp
Excerpt: “Eerie, though, how unobtrusively everything changed. Everyday sounds changed first. People did not honk in traffic. Heavy metal rock was eschewed in favor of the soul soothing symphonies and concertos of the Old Masters, the mellow sounds of soft jazz…”
• September 2022
The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal (available in print only) published “Winehouse Brandy”, a free verse poem dedicated to Amy Winehouse in their September 2022 issue.
Excerpt: “Teasing her hair up just before the show / lining her eyes in long strokes like a Pharaoh / She is sex honest on stage / Brandishing belly she pours her frail brute strength down inside your head like Alambic Brandy, and you smack your lips…”
Link to buy: http://www.0s-1s.com/haight-ashbury-literary-journal
• February 2022 Winner, Reedsy.com short story contest #135
“SOMA VAMP” Beulah codes games South of Market in San Francisco and really really wants to be a vampire...
Excerpt: Considering the undeniable fact that <oh my Goddess> he is gorgeous, she ponders briefly taking a selfie and IM’ing it immediately to the Women Who Wine. They would pee themselves. He is ghostly pale, like LeStat in Interview, and elegant in chiseled black attire…”
Link to Story: https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/v0p5s1/
• October 2021: Winner, Writer's Digest 90th Annual Writing Competition Award, Personal Essay genre for: "Dear 2020, A Letter from 2021".
Excerpt: “At least five simultaneous trends over the last twelve months, streams of history converging have led us to today, pinning our hopes on 2021…Here’s the thing I don’t want to say about this, but I will: We had it coming. In 2019, the Earth fashioned her own killing machine, her viral chainsaw felling old and young alike, clear cutting our species, who have destroyed so many others. Previously unperturbed animals are trapped by humans invading formerly pristine wildernesses. And in their dying throes, the struggling animals released a new and invisible contagion…”
Link to Announcement: https://www.writersdigest.com/wd-competitions/announcing-the-winners-of-the-90th-annual-writers-digest-writing-competition
• August 2021: Winner, Reedsy.com short story contest #106
“The Legend of Kapo” - a short story encapsulated in a fictional letter from Queen Emma's governess in 1850.
Excerpt: “At the Talk Story, I learned that their goddess Pele had sisters, one of whom was called Kapo. This goddess had a most unusual talent. I am struggling to convey what I heard at that meeting in Waipio for it involves a woman’s’ private parts.”
Link to Story: https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/mbxjd0/
• June 2021: Wingless Dreamer publishes “An Evening with Emily Dickinson”, an Anthology which features the poem “Into the Raw Dark”.
You can buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096YPWZ8P
• February 2020: Winner, Reedsy.com short story contest #28
“A Secret Fear” – a short story about the things we keep secret
Excerpt: “He nodded sagely and reassured me that I could never do or say anything that would keep him from loving his little sister…”
Link to Story https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/up2ygh/
• January 2016: Pilcrow and Dagger Literary Journal publishes “Soma Vamp”, a short story about a wannabe vampire living South of Market.
• 2017 and 2016: Marin Independent Journal publish various poems and essays
• 2010-2012: Examiner.com publishes twenty-six Personal Finance Columns.
Link to Loan Goddess Wisdom: https://www.cgtrippenterprises.com/loan-goddess-wisdom.html
• 1980, Calliope Magazine of University of the Pacific publishes several poems
• 1976, 1975 and 1974, Expressions Magazine of Skyline High School, publishes several short stories and poems.
Performances
• March 26, 2021: “When love leaves”, a poem for Creative Caffeine as part of their Anniversary Celebration
• December 3, 2020: “We were the East and West Wind” a memoir for the Coffee and Grief collective
• July 3, 2021 “Aunt Mary’s Mask” a six minute performance for the Mask Monologues on Zoom
• January 27, 2021 “Salt Licks of Remembered Dreams”, a poem accepted by Poet’s Choice
• Link to videos: https://www.cgtrippenterprises.com/performances.html
Workshops and Conferences
• December 2022 to present: Member, Hawaii Writers Guild
• November 2024 Participant, Kauai Writers Conference
• November 2022 Participant, Kauai Writers Conference
• March 2020 to November 2023: Contributor, Creative Caffeine Writers Group, a daily practice and weekly blog led by Janis Newman Cooke
• November 2019 Big Island Writers Retreat
• August 2018 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, a juried workshop
• May 2018 Nomad with a Notebook, Writing Salon, taught by Katherine Harrer
• February 2018 Documentary Journalism, Writing Salon, taught by Austin Smith
• July 2017 LitCamp Retreat, a juried workshop, led by Janis Newman Cooke
• 2016 Writing the Historical Essay, Writing Salon, taught by Jess Wells
• 2016 The Business of Writing, Marin County Libraries, taught by Lizette Wanzer
• 2013 and 2016 Round Robin 6 week intensive, Writing Salon, taught by Jane Underwood
Education
• Masters of International Management (MIM) from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Glendale Arizona. Now part of Arizona State University.
January 1984 - June 1985
Accounting, Finance, Marketing, International Management and Business Mandarin Chinese
• Bachelor of Arts Majored in International Studies with an area concentration of China at the University of the Pacific, Stockton California.
June 1976 - May 1980
Junior Year Abroad, nine months living in Taipei, Taiwan 1978-1979
