Waiting for My Cats to Die

Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Morbid Memoir

Stacy Horn (St. Martin's Press, 2001)

Stacy Horn is the founder of Echo, a NYC-based online service of over 3,000 members. Founded in 1990, Echo has an eclectic population of writers, artists, professionals and mostly likeable loudmouth, know-it-alls whom she calls "the dysfunctional family Echo." Horn wrote about Echo and the internet in a book called, "Cyberville: Clicks, Culture and the Creation of an Online Town" (Warner Books). Echo produces a a monthly reading series called Read Only, where writers on Echo read from their recently published books at a bar in the East Village of Manhattan called KGB.

Horn grew up on Long Island, went to college a few places and got a degree in fine arts from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. There isn't much to say about her twenties. She basically didn't accomplish much as she moved from one depressing job to another, until she went to graduate school, got a degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU, and started Echo, which some may call a "dubious achievement" but it makes her happy. Horn teaches a class at ITP called "Virtual Culture."

Now that she has completed her second book, "Waiting for My Cats to Die," (St. Martin's Press) Horn hopes to be drumming more -- she drums with a band called Ginga Pura and another band called the Manhattan Samba Group, or singing -- she sings with the Grace Church Choral Society, going to the movies, or, her favorite activity, laying around on the couch with the cats, watching television. Specifically: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "West Wing," the "Antiques Road Show" and "Roswell."

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