Kathryn Brown Ramsperger
Kathryn Brown Ramsperger is the author of The Shores of Our Souls, which received a Foreword Indie book award for multicultural fiction and was a Faulkner-Wisdom fiction finalist, and A Thousand Flying Things, shortlisted for both the Story Circle's Sarton Award and Chanticleer's Hemingway Award. It also won first place in fiction in the Royal Dragonfly Awards and is a Pulpwood Queens' International Book of the Year.
Ms. Ramsperger graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hollins University, earning a B.A. in English, and a graduate degree from George Washington University.
She worked as a journalist and publications director both nationally and internationally for such organizations as the National Geographic Society, Kiplinger, and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent.
She’s lived and worked in Europe and Africa, travelling throughout the Middle East. In 2000, she formed her own communications company, Ramsperger Communications, focusing on global relief and development, multicultural communication, women’s and children’s issues, and peace building.
In 2010, she became a certified master creativity and intuitive coach. A winner of the 1980 Hollins University Fiction Award, her work focuses on peace and the connections we all share.
An animal and nature lover, mother, spouse, and mezzo soprano, she currently lives in the D.C. suburbs.