Catherine Raven is a former national park ranger at Glacier, Mount Rainier, North Cascades, Voyageurs, and Yellowstone national parks. She earned a PhD in biology from Montana State University, holds degrees in zoology and botany from the University of Montana, and is a member of American Mensa and Sigma Xi. Her natural history essays have appeared in American Scientist, Journal of American Mensa, Montana Magazine, Narrative Magazine, and National Geographic Traveler.  

In 2019, she was awarded the Grand Prize in Book-length Narrative Non-fiction by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society. Her essays have won first place in the Montana Festival of the Book, and the Tucson Book Festival. 

Fox and I: an Uncommon Friendship was listed as one of 2021’s best books by the Christian Science Monitor.