Cathy Cimato was born in Toronto, ON, Canada and graduated from the University of Toronto She always wanted to be a writer, but life and circumstances got in the way of her writing goal. Finally, in the summer of 2022 she wrote her first short screenplay, The Bridge and entered it into the Season 7 Filmmatic Short Screenplay contest and received a Quarter Finalist accolade. In the Fall of 2022, she wrote another short screenplay, A Grave Meeting and entered the Wiki Screenplay contest and in December 2022 it won Best Short Screenplay. Currently, she is working on a treatment for a sci-fi spy thriller based off a flash fiction story she wrote. She enjoys taking part in the NYC Midnight writing contests and enjoys trying to write a story in 48 hours even if she is pulling her hair out for the first 2 hours. She resides in Buffalo, NY, with her husband, two sons and trains as a 2nd Degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and is an early beginner in Kumdo(“the way of the sword”).