She is an author of Forgotten Country published in March 2012, and won an Honorable Mention for the 2013 PEN/Hemingway Award. It was also picked for Booklist's Top 10 Debut Novels of 2012, and Bookpage's and The San Francisco Chronicle's Best Books of 2012 lists. Catherine is the recipient of a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, a Granta New Voice, and a fiction editor at Guernica Magazine.