Katie grew up in New Hampshire, went to college in Massachusetts, and settled down in Arizona. These are the environments you'll find in her stories because she thinks having an authentic sense of place is so important when you're reading.She's been calling herself a writer since the second grade when her teacher had the class bind their stories with patterned paper and put them on display in the library. She writes the kind of fiction she likes to read: character-driven, relationship-focused, and emotionally complex. She has published several novels and a collection of short stories.She's spent the last twenty years in Tucson where she lives with her sweet yellow lab and even sweeter boyfriend.