The next is baking bread, which reminds me of my grandmother (I’ve spent every summer of my life at the same lakeside cottage, where I can still conjure her spirit).” When I’m swimming in a northern spring-fed lake, and my nose is right down near the water–that’s my favorite scent in the world. “I love the sound of snow crunching beneath boots, the taste of butter, and pumpkin pancakes with real maple syrup (What can I say? I was born in Syracuse, NY). She is a regular contributor at two of Writer’s Digest’s Top 101 Websites for Writers, Writer Unboxed and Writers in the Storm. Over the past decades she has served on the boards of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group and the Philadelphia Writers Conference and worked with the Women’s Fiction Writers Association she hosts writing retreats for women and often speaks about writing. It was these events that launched her interest working through troubling psychosocial issues by writing fiction. Her second novel, the IPPY award-winning The Far End of Happy (Sourcebooks), is based on the true events surrounding the 1997 suicide standoff that resulted in her husband’s death. Set in Philadelphia, every page of the novel is infused with a dancer’s heightened awareness of the human body and its movement. Her first novel, The Art of Falling (Sourcebooks), grew from her 19 years of experience as a dance critic for The Morning Call newspaper.
Rich with material for further thought or discussion, her novels make a great choice for book clubs. Kathryn Craft writes stories that seek beauty and meaning at the edge of darkness. The book’s lead character, Penny, is pushed to the edge of despair and this helped Craft forgive her husband in some way and helped to bring the events of 1997 into a cathartic experience for Craft.Article by The Write Stuff Conference Chair, Dawn Sooy The process took eight years and the outcome was a novel called “The Art of Falling”. In the year 2000, Craft started writing fiction and her first novel took on the subject of eating disorders among the female dance community. The events had changed her and she understood that her life would never be the same. She initially wanted to write a memoir of her life, but her focus continually came back to her husband’s standoff with the police. On October 20, 1997, Craft’s husband had a 12-hour standoff with the police that ended up with his suicide. Craft also served in the various leadership capacities for the Women’s Fiction Writer’s Association, the Philadelphia Writer’s Conference, and the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group.
in Health and Physical Education with a dance concentration in 1980. in Biological Sciences Education in 1978. She later attended Miami University and graduated with a B.S. Kathryn Graham was born on September 9, 1956, in Syracuse, New York and graduated from Dulaney High School in 1974.
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