Kathryn Meyer Griffith has been an artist and a folk singer with her younger brother, Jim. She worked as a corporate graphic designer and for newspapers for twenty-three years before she quit to pursue her greatest passion and write full-time. She began writing novels at age twenty-one and has sixteen novels and twelve short stories to her credit. Kathryn is married to Russell, has a son, James, and two grandchildren, Joshua and Caitlyn, and lives in a small quaint town in Illinois called Columbia, which is across the JB Bridge from St. Louis, Missouri. Kathryn and Russell have three quirky cats-ghost cat Sasha and live cats Cleo and Sasha (Too)-and live happily in an old house in the heart of town.