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writer, creative, survivor

Cait West lives in Traverse City, Michigan. Her work has been published in The Revealer, Religion Dispatches, Fourth Genre, Hawai‘i Pacific Review, The Christian Century, and Newsweek. She is the author of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy. Find out more

 
 
Cait West offers readers an intimate glimpse into growing up and coming of age in a world defined by Christian patriarchy. Written with unusual sensitivity and unflinching honesty, hers is a story of aching loss and gritty resilience, of brokenness, beauty, and hope.
— Kristin Kobes Du Mez
 
 
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Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

 

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms.