Katharine first published in Cricket magazine in July, l992, for Fireworks! A few years later Cricket published Grandma’s Gifts, a story about two sisters who begin to understand their stern grandmother. Then, in 1997, Katharine presented her adult story, Spring Thaw, which involves a stoic mother and her adult daughter, at the International Conference on the Short Story. Katharine went on to publish ten short stories (now collected in Cardinal Coat and Other Stories), and has since published four children’s books (The Sleeping Bear Wakes Up, Where’s the Party, Hare and the Big Green Lawn, and Tor & Raven Are Friends). She has completed three plays for adults: Hamlin’s Bluff, A Raven Flies at Midnight, and First Harvest. Katharine leads a Writing Workshop for adults in Atlanta. In the summer, Katharine teaches a Young Writers’ Workshop in Empire, Michigan.

Katharine Crawford Robey was born in Madison, Wisconsin. She spent most of her childhood on forty acres of land near Marshfield, Wisconsin, called Silver Creek Farm. There, Katharine explored fields, woods, and streams and learned to love nature, especially birds. She began telling stories to her siblings when she was about six years old. A few years later, her father brought home a journal bound in black, and said to her, “Now write your stories down in this book.” And so Katharine did, all sorts of stories and poems. She still has the journal today.

Katharine was named a Master Birder by the Atlanta Audubon Society in 2002. Now she writes, presents her work at conferences and readings, and plays the violin in a baroque orchestra, as time permits. Her past times include birding and hiking Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes. Katharine lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Empire, Michigan, with her husband and adorable red standard poodle, Willa Cather Robey. 

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