About Catherine Fogarty
CATHERINE FOGARTY is an accomplished television producer, writer and director. She is the founder and president of Big Coat Media, an award-winning production company that has produced the award-winning HGTV series Love It or List It. Catherine is also the writer, producer and voice of Story Hunter Podcasts, a narrative true crime podcast. Catherine’s first non-fiction book, Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the 1971 Kingston Penitentiary Riot, was shortlisted for the Speaker’s Book Award and the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Non-Fiction Crime Book of the Year, and won the Marina Nemet Award in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. Her second book, Someone You Know, a collection of Canadian true crime stories, was a national bestseller. Originally trained as a social worker, Catherine holds a BA in sociology/anthropology, an MA in social work, an MBA in human resource management and an MFA in creative non-fiction writing from the University of Kings College. She divides her time between Toronto and Los Angeles.