Catherine McLeod was born in Australia in the mid 1950s. She is a mixture of English, Irish and Scottish parentage. Catherine currently resides in Queensland on the Gold Coast. She took up writing as a retirement activity at the suggestion of her daughter in law who believed that people should record their lives for the benefit of future generations. She wanted Catherine to write about her life experiences. The book Will War is Catherine's first foray into writing. She based her story on some true life events that she had experienced but aspects of the story are a combination of many small anecdotal events that had happened to people that she knew.