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Cathy Nilon is a native New Yorker now living with her son Luca in the Seattle, Washington area. Educated in New York City at the High School of Art and Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology, as well as Ars Sutoria in Milan, Italy, the internationally acclaimed school for shoe design, she has had an extensive career in shoe design and production most recently for Liz Claiborne Shoes, living for long periods of time in Italy, Indonesia, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong. She has come full circle back to her early dreams of writing and illustrating children's books.