The Guardsman

Cat Treadgold has been a publisher and editor, a classical singer, an Equity actress, a coordinator in Newsweek's External Relations Department, a legal secretary, a voice teacher at Shoreline CC, a receptionist at a major recording studio, a cater-waiter with Glorious Foods, a restaurant hostess, a member of an opera quartet, and a coat-check girl at a fancy New York nightclub.Cat has an AB cum laude in German Literature from Princeton University, a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Washington, and a certificate in Technical Writing and Editing from the UW.Two of her unpublished novels made it to the finals in their categories (mystery and romance) in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Annual Contest.Three of her adaptations of operas (original translations and dialogue) were performed by Shoreline students while she was a teacher there.She and her husband Jeff divide their time between Washington and Arizona.