Catherine Edward was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1948. After working for CBC Radio, she moved to Prince Edward Island in 1973, where she became a freelance journalist. She and her husband live in Belfast on their 103-acre farm

Catherine Edward's memoir The Brow of Dawn~One Woman's Journey with MS was shortlisted for Best Atlantic Published Book in 2005; winner of the first PEI Book Award 2006. An American version was published Bunin&Bannigan, New York, NY and in 2008 was excerpted in the Canadian anthology Northern Lights, Wiley Press, ed. B Rempel-Burkholder and D. Dueck. She is represented in the Acorn Press Christmas anthology, Snowflakes Softly Falling, 2015, with her story "The Little Santa". Formerly, Edward wrote for CBC radio, as a nationally syndicated columnist, and for programs in Toronto, London UK, and Charlottetown. (Matinee, Ideas, This Country in the Morning, Morningside, Radio Free Friday, the Children's Radio Network, Compass, Island Morning). Catherine & husband, Michael, have three children and eight grandchildren.

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