title: Catherine Gentile
text: # Catherine Gentile
  
  Catherine Gentile is an American short story writer.
  
  ## Life
  
  She is a native of Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated from Saint Joseph College (Connecticut) with a master's degree. After a career in special education/mental health, she turned to writing.
  
  Her short fiction has been published in The Hurricane Review, The Ledge, The Long Story, and Kaleidoscope.
  
  She is a staff writer for Portland Trails. She lives with her husband near Yarmouth, Maine, where she is completing her first novel, Sunday's Orphan.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 2005 Dana Award
  * Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia fellowship
  * The Reynolds Price Fiction Contest finalist
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Anthologies
  
  * Gay Baines; Mary Ann Eichelberger, eds. (January 2003). Hello, Goodbye: Stories, Essays and Poems for the 21st Century. July Literary Press. ISBN 978-0-9675504-2-8.
  