Cait is …
- Represented by Joyce Sweeney at The Seymour Agency;
- PB Party showcase Finalist 2025 for her entry Growing Up Blueberry;
- an environmentalist, the chair of her county environmental advisory council, and a member in her town’s sustainability and conservation committee. She also leads an annual community Earth Day cleanup;
- a geologist with a Master’s in Geology from San Diego State University and a decade of professional experience ranging from non-profit project management to carbon sequestration to enhanced oil recovery to environmental remediation, and earthquake hazard assessment;
- a writer of kid-lit stories, with themes of kindness and compassion; social-emotional learning (#SEL) and environmentalism; and family, friendship, and community;
- a member of two bi-weekly critique groups and an active member of SCBWI (New York West/Central Chapter) and Storytellers Academy;
- a vermonter-at-heart who now resides in the finger lakes region of upstate NY with her husband and 2 kids;
- a mother of an inquisitive, D&D loving, wizarding, mine-crafting middle schooler and a trend-setting, artistic, bug and ocean loving, rainbow princess elementary schooler;
- neurodivergent, and still figuring it all out.
Cait’s Quirks:
- Purple over any color
- Tea over coffee, water over juice, lager over IPA, and wine over whiskey.
- Cats over dogs, but capybaras and platypuses over cats.
- Lake over ocean – ocean life is amazing and terrifying and should not mix with humans.
- Earth (rocks) over water, wind, or fire, but equal to heart.
- Jigsaws over crossword puzzles – sorting required. Flip ‘em over, edges first. What sort of maniac attacks a puzzle without sorting?
- Hands in the dirt over clean hands – although gardening gloves have their uses.
- Digital over physical – spreadsheets, google calendars, and email. Did I mention spreadsheets?
- Milk chocolate over dark chocolate
Cait Darfler 