Catherine Watson is a nationally known travel writer, photographer and teacher. She was the first travel editor at the a Minneapolis Star Tribune and was its chief travel writer and photographer from 1978 until 2004. Nationally, she was a pioneer in voiced travel writing in newspapers, and her work won many national and regional awards, including the two most important in her field: Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year and the Society of American Travel Writers Photographer of the Year.