Katrina’s Short Bio

Katrina Kittle is the author of five books for adults—Traveling Light, Two Truths and a Lie, The Kindness of Strangers, The Blessings of the Animals, and Morning in This BrokenWorld, an Amazon First Reads pick, and released in September of 2023. The Kindness of Strangers was the winner of the 2006 Great Lakes Book Award for Fiction. She also has written one novel for tweens, Reasons to Be Happy.

Her newest novel, I Forgot to Remember You, _______. Katrina also teaches creative writing workshops for all ages, focusing on craft and motivation (and is especially good at jumpstarting stalled writers). She teaches online and in the Dayton-Cincinnati-Columbus area through Word’s Worth Writing Connections and was a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Dayton for eight years. She is a public speaker, most often leading her “Leap and the Net Will Appear” and “Happy Class” workshops. Katrina lives south of Dayton with her fella, her spooky little weirdo cat Annie, her sweet beagle Serena, and her out-of-control garden. She has a thing for goats, gardening, and going barefoot; and is addicted to coffee, pedicures, and Indian food. You can occasionally see her on stage in local community theatre productions, and she is always at work on another novel.