Katherine Crawford

Fiction Writer

Montclair, NJ
New Jersey US
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Author's Bio

Katherine Scott Crawford is an award-winning author, recovering academic and former adjunct professor. She serves as a guest lecturer and workshop leader at conferences, literary festivals, writers' retreats, and more. As a newspaper columnist, her popular column appeared weekly across the United States and abroad, in USA Today, the Detroit Free Press, and many others. She holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Founder and director of MountainTop Writers Retreats, she lives in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband, daughters, and their trail dog. Her second historical novel, THE MINIATURIST'S ASSISTANT, is forthcoming in April 2025 from Regal House Publishing. 

Writers Retreats: 
Literary agent: 
Joelle Delbourgo

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Miniaturist's Assistant (Regal House Publishing, 2025)
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Keowee Valley (Bell Bridge Books, 2012)
Prizes won: 

North Carolina Poetry Society Thomas H. McDill Award, North Carolina Arts Award in Fiction, Montana Artists Refuge Writer-in_Residence (fellowship), Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest Quarterfinalist, HOLT Medallion in Historical Fiction, Florida First Coast Novel Contest, First Place: Paul Gillette Novel Contest, Best in Issue: Poetry (Petigru Review)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Greenville, SC
South Carolina
Raised in: 
Greenville, SC
South Carolina
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Last update: Jun 21, 2023