KATHERINE LAWRENCE is the author of the young adult novel-in-verse Stay, and three poetry collections. Stay received the North American Gold Moonbeam Award for Children's Poetry and was nominated for two Saskatchewan Book Awards: Poetry, and Children's Literature. Never Mind was nominated for the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, and the City of Saskatoon Book Award. Lying to Our Mothers was nominated for the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry. Ring Finger, Left Hand won the Saskatchewan Book Awards' Brenda Macdonald Riches Best First Book Award.
Katherine was born in Hamilton, Ontario. She has lived in Saskatoon for over thirty-five years with her husband and their two daughters.
