Kathleen M. Jacobs, the 2017 New River Gorge Winter Writer-in-Residence is the author of the YA-novel, Honeysuckle Holiday, set in the south in the 1960s. Her MG-novel, Marble Town, tells the story of a young boy's journey through grief after his mother is killed in a car accident. She is currently working on her first children's book and divides her time between the two Virginias.