Cathie Beck (born August 3, 1955) is an American journalist and creative writer based in Denver, Colorado.

Her memoir Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship, which she self-published in October 2009,[1][2] was published by Hyperion Books in July 2010.

[3][4][5] Iris Dart, author of “Beaches” endorses Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship on the book cover.

[6] Graduate of the Louisiana Tech University Journalism Department,[7] and the Creative Writing Graduate Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Beck has written for the Daily Camera (Boulder), the Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News,[8] The Denver Business Journal, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Writer's Digest.

Beck's literary influences include Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Parker, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Raymond Carver, Barbara Kingsolver, Frank McCourt, and David Sedaris.