Catherine Hoffmann was born in Sopron, Hungary. She migrated to Australia with her family as a refugee in 1956. Catherine has published five volumes of fiction: Crystal (1988), Forms of Bliss (1989), Of Exile and Yearning (2009), Across the Burning (2010), and Taking Wing (2011). She is also the author of a nonfiction book on the suffering of incurable illness, Perilous Journey (1989).