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.