Clients
Our authors are the heart and soul of kt literary and we’re thrilled to work with all of them.
Sara Beitia
Since about the time she learned to read, Sara Beitia has been captivated by stories and storytelling. Though writing has been her unwavering interest, a motley career path— including field worker, legal secretary, store clerk, newspaper editor and bookkeeper, with a college degree in creative writing and philosophy from the College of Idaho in 2003 thrown somewhere in the middle—has provided plenty of grist for the mill. Besides writing, Sara’s other great loves are books, travel and all manner of stationery. Sara and her husband, Paul, along with their absurdly spoiled dog, Polly, and cat, Arnie, make their home in southern Idaho. Her novel THE LAST GOOD PLACE OF LILY ODILON will be published by Flux in October 2010.
Josie Bloss
Josie Bloss, a third-generation band geek, attended the University of Michigan, where she was a member of the best college marching band in the country and a staff reporter for the Michigan Daily. She also spent a year at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. When not mining her high school journals for material and wishing there were marching band options for adults, Josie enjoys theater and karaoke. She is the author of BAND GEEK LOVE (Flux, July 2008), BAND GEEKED OUT (Flux, April 2009), and the forthcoming ALBATROSS, which Meg Cabot calls “Taut and emotionally wrenching”.
Ellen Booraem
Ellen Booraem spent thirty years as a journalist, including ten years as the managing editor and award-winning writer for The Weekly Packet, a tiny weekly newspaper in Blue Hill, ME. After a three-year stint as managing editor of The Packet’s parent chain, she continued to win awards as arts and special sections editor for The Ellsworth American, the highly regarded county weekly. She served in that post for six years and continues to work for The American as a freelance reporter and reviewer. A native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Wheaton College, Booraem lives with painter Robert Shillady in the coastal Maine town of Brooklin (population 900), where they built a house with their own hands and no mortgage. She is a member of the Class of 2k8 with her debut novel THE UNNAMEABLES (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2008). Her new novel, tentatively entitled SMALL PERSONS WITH WINGS, will be published by Dial Books in Spring 2011. She also blogs at The Enchanted Inkpot.
Suzanne Casamento
Growing up in a slow New Jersey town (complete with horse farms and cornfields) gave Suzanne Casamento plenty of time to dream up stories. She earned her BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston, where she studied under Andre Dubus III. Her stories and articles have been published in Seventeen, Teen and All About You. Her debut novel FINGERPRINTS is loosely based on a piece that appeared in Seventeen. Both stories are a lot like her 16th summer in New Jersey, when suddenly life wasn’t so boring anymore. Suzanne now lives in Los Angeles and is an active member of the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators.
Kater Cheek
Kater Cheek lives in Tempe, Arizona. She has contributed to THE LIVING DEAD anthology, and has published fiction in Ideomancer, Big Pulp, and Coyote Wild, among others. She also writes reviews for Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing and writes/draws a webcomic about chickens. She has a B.A. in Linguistics, a brown belt in karate, and a garden that doesn’t yield nearly as much as she would like. She has folk danced professionally, taught English in Japan, and spent five months backpacking alone through Europe. She has learned six languages and forgotten four of them. When not writing, she throws pots, paints, binds books, and plays with molten glass.
Matthew Cody
Matthew Cody’s short fiction and essays have appeared in opiummagazine and mcsweeneys.net and he has been a contributor to numerous blogs and web zines. Before turning his attention to writing full-time, he spent several years as an actor working in the New York theater scene and in regional theaters across the country. Matthew is currently a proud member of The Fantastic Saloon – a group of like-minded New York scribes dedicated to “weird and genre fiction”. His first novel POWERLESS will be published by Knopf in October 2009.
Trish Doller
Trish is a former radio personality and newspaper reporter with a B.A. in Journalism from Ohio State University. She lives in Florida with her husband, two teenagers and The Cutest Dog in the World. She divides her time between working at Barnes & Noble and writing young adult fiction. Her favorite band is The Slackers. Her debut novel is MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY.
S. Terrell French
S. Terrell French grew up in near Washington, D.C. and spent her summers running barefoot in the forest. She graduated from Harvard College and Berkeley Law, and once spent two months as a Forest Service volunteer in Misty Fiords National Monument in Alaska. She currently lives in the very foggiest part of San Francisco with her husband and three children and divides her time between writing and environmental law.
Kiki Hamilton
Kiki Hamilton believes in faeries. And magic. Her novel THE FAERIE RING, which tells the story of a young orphan in Victorian England who discovers the reality of faeries, will be published by Tor Books. When she’s not writing YA stories of fantasy and adventure Kiki’s using that BA in Business Admin from Washington State University to work in commercial real estate. She lives in Olympia, Washington, where it only rains part of the time, with one daughter, one dog, one husband and sixteen koi. She also blogs at The Enchanted Inkpot.
Carrie Harris
Carrie Harris likes writing books, playing games, fighting evil, and cooking (everyone’s got to have hobbies). Her wonky job history includes positions as a knife salesperson, an autopsy coordinator, and manager of the national center for research in Mad Cow Disease. Her shining moment (other than the obligatory wedding day and birth of her children, of course) was at a dinner party, where she said something so off-the-wall that it made Tom Robbins take off his sunglasses. Her debut novel is the zombie romance NO PAIN, NO BRAIN, and yes, she is in her 30s and has actually been carded at a roller skating rink.
Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and studied writing and theatrical dramaturgy at Columbia University. is an only child, which means that she knows how to play Candyland by herself. In addition to writing books, she is also a scriptwriter for the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Handheld videogames. She lives in New York City, and travels to the UK on a regular basis. Her books include THE KEY TO THE GOLDEN FIREBIRD, THE BERMUDEZ TRIANGLE, 13 LITTLE BLUE ENVELOPES, the Andre Norton-nominated DEVILISH, GIRL AT SEA, SUITE SCARLETT, LET IT SNOW, and the forthcoming SCARLETT FEVER. Her works have honored by the NYPL, ALA, Booksense, and PW’s “Cuffies.”
Julia Karr
Julia Karr lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her four cats and three dogs. She grew up in Seymour, fifty miles southeast of her current home. Her love of books led her to be the youngest child to complete the library’s summer reading club – garnering her a photo on the front page of the Seymour Daily Tribune. When her two daughters were little, she wrote them bedtime stories; now that they are grown, she writes novels. Her first book, XVI, a young adult futuristic thriller that began its life as a NaNoWriMo experiment, will be published by Speak/Penguin Books for Young Readers.
Stephanie Perkins
Stephanie Perkins is proud to be both a book nerd and a movie geek. She loves swashbuckling adventures, mocha lattes, fairy tales, loud music, jasmine tea, neighborhood walks, and afternoon naps. And kissing. She lives in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband. Her debut novel, ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS, will be published by Julie Strauss-Gabel at Dutton in Fall 2010.
Sara Raasch
Sara Raasch fell in love with writing in first grade when she awed her young classmates by completing a one-page writing assignment about puppies in TWO pages. When not writing about far more serious subjects (like pirates), Sara plays degree roulette as a junior at Wright State University. Though she does have a puppy now, her debut novel, STREAM PIRATE, is much longer than two pages.
Ransom Riggs
Before earning an MFA in film production from the USC school of cinema-television, writer-director Ransom Riggs worked for several years as a journalist, photographer, and documentary film editor. His award-winning short films have screened at more than 70 film festivals worldwide, been distributed on television, mobile phone networks, and will soon be available on iTunes. Currently developing a number of original feature film projects, he moonlights as a contributing writer and blogger for Mental_floss magazine and Mentalfloss.com, and is the author of Quirk’s forthcoming SHERLOCK HOLMES HANDBOOK. He also co-wrote the coffee table books SCATTERBRAINED and ORIGINS: THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING for HarperCollins Publishers.
Daniel Rogge
Daniel Rogge was recapping “America’s Next Top Model” for the popular website Television Without Pity when he was tapped by the show’s producer to work on the show itself. After years of long hours and hard work, Dan later led the 2006 short-lived and failed writer’s strike of the ANTM staff. Now an LA-based writer and producer, his recent writing can be found in The Advocate and at the website Television Without Pity. He is the co-founder of The Slow Roll, and is developing a book based on the site.
Susan Sandmore
When you beg your parents for a pair of Princess Leia Underoos and they never come through, you wind up writing about children — children with problems. Susan lives on the North Carolina coast, where she alternately teaches, writes, and broods over toys she never got. Throughout her college years, grad school years, and even law school years, Susan never stopped reading and enjoying books for young people. Her work has appeared in Highlights For Children.
Thomas E. Sniegoski
Thomas E. Sniegoski is a novelist and comic book scripter who has worked for every major company in the comic book industry. He has written tales featuring such characters as HELLBOY, BATMAN, WOLVERINE, DEVIL DINOSAUR, and the PUNISHER. His comic book work also includes STUPID, STUPID RAT TAILS, a prequel miniseries to the international hit, BONE. His novels include the four book Young Adult series, THE FALLEN, which was turned into the highly rated ABC Family Channel miniseries, THE SLEEPER CONSPIRACY, HELLBOY: THE GOD MACHINE, LOBSTER JOHNSON: THE SATAN FACTORY, THE BILLY HOOTEN: OWLBOY series, and the Remy Chandler books: A KISS BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE & DANCING ON THE HEAD OF A PIN. His superhero thriller, LEGACY, has just been released by Delacorte Books and he has just finished work on the latest Remy Chandler novel, WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD, and the first in a series of original BONE novels for Scholastic to released in 2010.
Amy Spalding
Amy Spalding wrote her first book at age ten, but don’t let that anecdote impress you out of context. It was a melting pot of every series she was reading at the time, and she spent far more time designing the cover art than actually writing. Amy narrowly survived both Catholic grade school and public high school in rural Missouri before going on to study Marketing Communications at St. Louis’s Webster University. After graduation, Amy packed up her things, kept her laptop at easy reach, and moved out to Los Angeles. Amy is now working on her M.A. in Media Studies at the New School, where she’s watching lots of TV to see how gender is portrayed. She’s also writing her figurative pants off! She dislikes long walks on the beach but thinks fuzzy kittens are tops.
Lili Wilkinson
Lili Wilkinson was born in Melbourne, Australia, in the front room where her parents still live. She’s an only child, and loves it (Lili’s mum is Dragonkeeper author Carole Wilkinson). She was first published when she was 13, in Voiceworks Magazine. After studying Creative Arts at Melbourne University, Lili was employed by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria, where she now manages Inside A Dog, a website for teenagers about books and reading. She spends most of her time reading and writing books for teenagers, but when she’s not doing that, she’s usually hanging out with friends, watching DVDs and making monsters out of wool. Her novel SCATTERHEART (Black Dog Books) was longlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Prize. Her novel THE (NOT QUITE) PERFECT BOYFRIEND was published in 2008 by Allen & Unwin, and will be followed by PINK (Allen & Unwin, August 2009), her American debut.
