Catherine Gans

Born in New York City, Catherine Gans works and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a writer, she is committed to situating intimate narratives in the context of history, politics, or, more precisely, in relation to power. This interest in the tension between private and public is what draws her to family stories and photography, the sites of our earliest ruptures between mythology and truth. She is currently working on a nonfiction project about her own family and their generations-long pursuit of the archetype of a normal, white American family.