"Kathy Hill was born Katherine Viedge in Mthatha in the Transkei region of South Africa. Much of her childhood was spent at her family home of Viedgesville and on the Transkei's Wild Coast. She attended Clifton Park High - now Hudson Park High - in East London, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. She qualified as a Radiographer in 1981, and reoloated to the Kwa Zulu Natal province. The following years were spent working and raising her two children. In 2004, Kathy returned to the Eastern Cape. She is now retired-apart from locum work-and lives with her mother and a teddy bear called Wittie. Gogo is the Zulu word for Granny, and Gogo and the Upside Down Umbrella was written for her grandson. Kathy has since had two more Gogo books published. As Kathy says, "My hope is for these little books to fly, and to eventually be featured as a children's series on television.""
