About

Born in the Pacific Northwest, Kathleen once lived on a farm near Mount St. Helens. She spent over twenty years in Minnesota before returning home to Washington State. She was attending a sister’s wedding about 30 miles from the volcano when it erupted. But that’s a story all its own.

After graduating from Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Kathleen worked variously as an executive secretary to an occult publisher, a tarot reader, a typesetter, and a proofreader before finding a niche in academic libraries, and, later, as an academic counselor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Most recently she served as a library assistant at a small, rural, public library. While stereotypes of library staffers abound, it’s safe to say Kathleen reads a lot.

She lives and writes on an island in the Salish Sea in Washington State accessible only by ferry. It’s a landscape of stunning natural beauty like that found in fantasy tales: the Shire perhaps, or Lothlorien. Once again she finds herself living where another dormant volcano, Mt. Baker, looms on the horizon.

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