Biography
Catherine Ann Jones holds a graduate degree in Depth Psychology and Archetypal Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she has also taught. After playing major roles in over 50 plays in and out of New York, she became disappointed by the lack of good roles for women and wrote a play, On the Edge, about Virginia Woolf and her struggle with madness in a world gone mad: Hitler and WWII. The play won a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Eleven of her plays, including Calamity Jane (both play and musical), The Women of Cedar Creek, and Freud's Oracle, have won multiple awards and are produced both in and out of New York. Her films include The Christmas Wife (HBO, receiving four Emmy nominations and starring Jason Robards and Julie Harris), Unlikely Angel (Dolly Parton), and episodes for the popular TV series, Touched by an Angel. A Fulbright Research Scholar to India studying shamanism, she has taught at The New School University in NYC, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and the Esalen and Omega Institutes. Her books are The Way of Story: The Craft & Soul of Writing, Heal Your Self with Writing, What Story Are You Living, Freud's Oracle, True Fables: Stories from Childhood, Buddha & the Dancing Girl: A Creative Life, East & West: Stories of India (2024), and Remarkable Women: Four Plays (2025). Based in Ojai, CA, she leads The Way of Story, Heal Your Self with Writing, and Writing Your Memoir workshops throughout the U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia. Over 60,000 have subscribed to her six Daily OM online courses. For blog, interviews, workshop schedule, online courses, writing consultations, and psychic readings.
