Cathy Beaudoin, author

 

After 17 years in the business sector serving as a financial officer in several multi-billion dollar corporations, I started to lose my eye sight. Passionate about my profession (accounting), and the role that education played in my professional success, I went back to college to obtain a Ph.D. in accounting. Though legally blind, I was fortunate enough to be hired into a tenure-track position at the University of Vermont School of Business. Achieving the rank of Associate Professor, my academic research has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and Issues in Accounting Education among other academic journals. Unfortunately, the trauma of losing an eye to a vicious infection made my academic career untenable. My accounting credentials can be found here.

 

I started writing my story because, while there was an abundance of medical information about the diseases that caused vision loss, there were far fewer first-hand accounts of what an individual experiences when they lose their eye-sight in the midst of a burgeoning career. In addition to writing about my own vision loss experience, I've written about my life as a blind woman, and the experiences of other blind people I've met along the way.  You can find all these stories in the non-fiction section of this website. 

 

Besides my non-fiction prose, I've had several fiction short stories published and can be found in the fiction section of this website.

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Writing-related affiliations and activities:

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Member - Central Oregon Writers Guild (2020 - 2023)

Attended - Creative Writing Stage 1 (2019)

Interview - Mud Season Review Reader Interview, 2019

Attended - Central Coast Writers Conference, 2017

Member - SLO NightWriters, 2017 - 2019

Member - Burlington Writers Workshop, 2014-2020

Fiction reader - Mud Season Review, 2015, 2017 - 2020

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