Kathryn has had a life-long love affair with creative writing since she won her first poetry competition at age 10. She has published short stories and poetry in literary journals and anthologies over the years and produced a collaborative book of poetry, “Women Without Shadows”. Her work, both short fiction and poetry, has been featured frequently on CBC Radio’s Alberta Anthology program.
Her published books include: a YA fantasy novel, an adult blended novel, and a children’s chapter book. All three of these books are available through this website.
Professionally she served as the Executive Director of the Calgary Region Arts Foundation for 23 years. Then she and her husband and son moved from Calgary to Nelson in search of a more natural life style surrounded by lakes to paddle, trails to walk, and mountains and valleys to explore.
In Nelson Kathy worked for the Nelson and District Arts Council then retired to concentrate on writing and many volunteer positions. She lives with her husband and three Chihuahuas in the serene lakeside town nestled in the gentle green mountains of southern British Columbia.
The next project is another YA fantasy novel called “The Lost Dragon”. The dragon is currently searching for a publisher.
Kathryn has had a life-long love affair with creative writing since she won her first poetry competition at age 10. She has published short stories and poetry in literary journals and anthologies over the years and produced a collaborative book of poetry, “Women Without Shadows”. Her work, both short fiction and poetry, has been featured frequently on CBC Radio’s Alberta Anthology program.
Her published books include: a YA fantasy novel, an...
Nestled in the rolling foothills, where the prairie climbs to meet the Rocky Mountains, lies the small town of Cougar Lake. You know these towns. You’ve driven through them. Maybe even stopped for a bite at the Copper Kettle café.
In this book all the doors in town swing quietly open. Each inhabitant’s life and story intersects with others like...
There were two things Joanie knew for certain when she woke up that morning:
1. There was no way Mom was going to let any of them get out of marching up a mountain today.
2. She didn’t want to be a part of this family any more.
Every May long weekend Joanie’s mom made the family do their traditional spring hike. At nine, Joanie thought she was old...
A young woman emerges from a sheltered life at an orphanage in the year 2525. The world is much changed from the one we know today. It’s been 425 years since all motorized travel was banned worldwide in a last ditch effort to save the planet. Travel is by dog cart, horse, pedal cart or bicycle. The trigger for the green revolution came, not from...
Let me introduce you to “The Lost Dragon”.
In 1850’s London life can be squalid but magic exists, and faeries, and even dragons. Cora, an orphan, scrounges for survival in the muck and garbage on the shores of the Thames river. She sleeps in an abandoned shed and eats what she can find in garbage bins or what she, and the other river kids (mudlarks), can liberate from market stalls. Life is cold, damp, filthy and hopeless. Until the day she finds the dragon’s egg. The discovery launches her...