Cat New is a writer and multi-media artist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Homeward Bound explores the intersection of home, climate change, and systems of meaning and is rooted in the un-rooted.
Like many growing up with divorced parents in the 70s and 80s, Cat lived in more than a dozen places by the time they were a teenager, frequently moving between coasts and households. That sense of dislocation has been a driving force in their work as an essayist, creating resilience for the inner and outer geography of self. Now, as the forces of climate change continue to uproot people from the places they call home, this sense of dislocation is a feature of eco-anxiety and climate-related trauma.
Drawing from diverse sources — from psychology and spirituality to economics to climate science to urban policy — Cat’s writing and other works seek to explore how to understand, contextualize, and build a new understanding of the concept of home in the 21st century. Their goal is to contribute to building individual and social resilience as positive climate action.
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