Catherine Meyrick writes romantic historical fiction. She lives in Melbourne but grew up in Ballarat, a large regional city steeped in history. She has a Master of Arts in history, is a retired librarian and an obsessive genealogist.

Catherine has written two novels set in Elizabethan England, Forsaking All Other and The Bridled Tongue. Her more recent books are Australian stories. Cold Blows the Wind is set in Hobart Town, Tasmania between 1878 and 1885 and is based on a period in the lives of her great-great grandparents, both the children of transported convicts. Her latest novel, And the Women Watch and Wait, is set in Coburg, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, between 1914 and 1919 and depicts the struggles of ordinary women left to watch and wait and pray during the four long years that their men were away fighting a war on the other side of the world.