Cat Gwynn’s critically acclaimed photo memoir, 10-Mile Radius: Reframing Life on the Path Through Cancer (Rare Bird Books, 2017), received accolades and reviews, including New York Times best-selling author Kris Carr (CrazySexyCancer series) who called it “A glorious book that shows us how to passionately and deeply love a world in which pain is a part.” Janet Fitch, the author of the #1 national bestseller White Oleander, praised it as “A multilayered conversation about awareness. It’s surprising in its honesty, beautiful in its artistry, serious, funny, and tender all at once.” And award-winning author Susan Straight, Critic at Large for the Los Angeles Times, wrote, “using her iPhone and her own text to tell the story, Gwynn created a narrative I read again and again. Her images and captions were like haiku, giving shape to her idea of survival. Turn each day into a victory.

Gwynn’s current work includes two photography book projects. The Cat Is Me reflects on the world’s collective sadness, division, rage, and uncertainty amid the continuing cultural and sociopolitical turmoil expressed through the reactive emotions of a white cat who lives in a window. And Cry captures the raw, healthy power of masculine vulnerability in intimate black-and-white portraits.

Gwynn’s images appear in numerous exhibition catalogs and photo anthologies, including Cali Editions California Love: A Visual Mixtape, Konemann Publishing Photography Index, Guild Publishing Object Lessons, and renowned tattoo and fine artist Don Ed Hardy’s seminal book Forever Yes, Art of the New Tattoo. Among the many journals that feature her artwork are Artforum, Newsweek, Surface, The New Yorker, Artweek, and Texas Monthly.

Educated in photography and fine arts at the Otis Parsons Art Institute, Cat Gwynn has also completed master photography workshops with such esteemed artists as Mary Ellen Mark, Barbara Kruger, Jo Ann Callis, William Wegman, and Joel Peter Witkin. Her artwork is widely exhibited and sold through the Susan Spiritus Gallery.