Author Biography

Katharine Crawford Robey spent her childhood traipsing through the woods, fields, and streams of Silver Creek Farm near Marshfield, Wisconsin. Summers were spent fishing and swimming at the family log cabin on Big Platte Lake near Honor, Michigan.

She began to tell stories to her four siblings when she was eight or ten. One day, her father presented her with a blank journal and said, “Kitty, write your stories down in this.” She did and now has the journal tucked away at her winter home in Atlanta, Georgia, where she and her husband have lived for some forty-eight years. Their two children, John Warren and Kate, who are now married, have little children of their own.

Katharine Crawford Robey spends summers at their home in Empire, Michigan, just outside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. At Glen Lake Community Library in Empire, she teaches creative writing to children of various ages. Katharine has loved wild birds her entire life and is a Master Birder. She majored in music (BA, UW-Madison) and attended the University of Kentucky College of Law on a violin scholarship. She was first published in Cricket magazine while she was still practicing law. Later, she retired to write. She and her husband own Bronte, a standard poodle puppy who has begun to devour her work, literally.