Kitty was born and raised in northern Michigan, USA.  Her mother, a teacher and reciter/writer of poetry, and grandmother, the first county librarian, instilled a love of words and imagery, and her father, an electrical contractor and water well driller, developed her interest in clean form and in nature.  She was briefly a licensed practical nurse and worked for years in an office, where she was told her meeting minutes were "more interesting than being there" while still reporting what actually happened.  She has lived in Detroit, Michigan; Las Vegas, Nevada; Los Angeles, California and Charlotte, North Carolina, and has returned once again to the northern woods and cold Michigan winters of her childhood.  

She lives in a little cottage in the woods with her husband, one small dog and two cats.  She has one wonderful grown son.  In addition to writing and reading, she quilts, crochets, watches tv, facebooks and laughs a lot.  She is working on a collection of nature-based poems and on memorizing "In Flanders fields the poppies blow..." by Lt. Col. John McCrae.  She also has a small perennial flower garden that flourishes with benevolent neglect.

She loves words.