Katherine Nouri Hughes is an Iraqi-Irish speechwriter and author. She has published two books on K-12 education, been a communications executive in the for- and nonprofit sectors, and served on the boards of the American University in Cairo, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Thirteen/WNET, a public television station. She attended Princeton University, where she received a master's degree in Near Eastern Studies. The Mapmaker's Daughter is her first novel.
