Catharine Leona Joy Minter Parks was born in Chatham, Ontario, to a Canadian mother and an American father in Chatham, Ontario. Her early childhood was spent in the church, growing up under a strict upbringing, but at an early age, she desired more. With an adventuresome spirit, she would join her brother in escaping the house after bedtime and going downtown with him to dances, plays, and movies to enjoy all the things that her religious parents denied her.

 Catharine’s love of words started in early childhood when she would make up fictitious words and songs. In 1983, she was gifted with songwriting and recorded several songs of her own, including the song Proud to be Canadian in 1991.

 On January 25, 2007, she published her first devotional, A Glimpse of the Cross, on the Mustard Seed Ministries Site based on a vision. Fate Magazine published Cliffhanger in Nov. 2007 as a dream turned into reality. In June 2015, she published Heaven Sent Signs and Wonders stories based on supernatural events. She published a Collection of Short Stories on April 24, 2016. In January 2016, she published Eye Rings: How to Decrease Eye Floaters, a personal account of this disorder. For the Shattered Soul: Dealing with the Pain Within was published in July 2016.