Speaker: Cathie Beck

Cathie Beck is the author of the award-winning memoir, Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship, a wickedly funny and smart memoir about female friendship. Iris Dart, author of Beaches describes Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship as “an achingly poignant memoir that reminds every woman to call her best friend right away.” 

In 2009 Cathie self-published her memoir, holding an online “Cheap Cabernet for Every Vixen” online book launch party, and sold so many copies on Amazon.com, it hit No. 1 Amazon Movers & Shakers. Twenty-two publishers and 16 literary agents jockeyed to represent the book, and a top literary agent held a three-house auction — in July 2010, Hyperion Books published Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship.

She is currently is “The Wine Wench” columnist for ColoradoBiz Magazine (www.cobizmag.com) and KUVO radio (www.kuvo.org) in Denver, Colorado. She has written for the Boulder Daily Camera, the Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Business Journal, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Writers Digest. She presently contributes to a number of major publications, including The Denver Post, and She is the recipient of the Louisiana Press Women’s and Denver Press Woman’s Writing Awards, the Scripps-Howard Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the University of Colorado’s Dean’s Award for Writing.

Further information can be found at www.cathiebeck.com.