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Catherine "Cat" Bentivegna Adami, daughter of late Hall of Fame pool player and author of The Encyclopedia of Pool Hustlers, Freddy 'The Beard' Bentivegna, grew up a Pool Hustler's Daughter on the near north side of Chicago. She has a degree in History from Tulane University and attended NYU for Fiction writing and The Writer's Hotel for Non-Fiction. Her novel, On Elizabeth Street, a romantic comedy set in NYC's Nolita neighborhood, published in 2016. The Epitome of Cool, an article about her father, was the cover article of Billiards Digest in 2014. She performs at Open Mikes and is currently penning her memoir, My Life in the Gulag. You can follow her on Instagram

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