Katherine Sparrow was born in 1974 in Seattle. She was bald until the age of three, she rode around in a red VW bus, and loved putting things in her mouth.

During her formative years she worked on becoming a famous chef with her best friend, and they came up with such hits as Mint-Milk and Everything-Shake. Other experiments, such as pee-lemonade, were less successful.

Katherine spent her summers at camp and Loon lake, developing a life-long love of swimming and balancing on half submerged logs.

In Junior high she was unhappy, in high school, a little less so. By college she discovered feminist and social theory which led to the sad but liberating conclusion that the world, as is, is not doing so well.

She also discovered Octavia Butler, Ursula K LeGuin, and Marge Piercy, also known as the Really Big Influences.

Katherine knew she wanted to be a writer, but didn't take many writing classes in college, because that would have been too scary.

By college's end she'd acquired a fancy piece of paper, a futon, and a partner in crime.

They moved to Seattle, had lots of existential angst, lived in collective houses, and worried a lot about what they were going to do with their lives.

After taking a class on finding your life's work and attending an infamous protest on globalization, it became clear to Katherine that life was short, the world was on fire, and it was time to do what she needed to do: which was to write stories that only she could write. That's the best thing about being a writer: whatever you write, only you could have thought it up.

She wrote steadily for a couple of years, and then went to the Clarion West Writer's Workshop, where she learned many excellent things, the best of which was it was time to start sending stories out into the world. She has been doing this ever since, and selling short stories here and there. Katherine also is hard at work on a young adult science fiction novel about love, power, growing up, and getting free. She especially likes writing books, because that's where you get to do big things. She currently lives in Santa Cruz where it is a bit too sunny and mellow for her over-caffeinated Seattle soul.

The end, for now.