Cate Wnek is a photographer, published writer, and book artist based in mid-coast Maine. In 2019 she was a Critical Mass Finalist and in 2018 she was a Finalist in the Lensculture Fine Art Photography Awards. Her work has been selected for THE FENCE New England Photographers Showcase, The Griffin Museum, The Curated Fridge, Photoplace Gallery, Photographic Resource Center, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Center for Fine Art Photography, and A. Smith Gallery. Born and raised in northern Virginia, she came to live in Maine for college and graduate school. Following a short stint on a global markets trading floor in Boston, she and her husband returned to Maine to raise their two boys, and that is when she became hooked onto photography; it was as a stay-at-home mother. Presently, Cate serves on the Board of Directors for the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts.