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Katrina Kittle is a lecturer in the Department of English teaching creative writing and composition. She earned a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Education from Ohio State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University in Louisville.

Katrina has five published novels, four for adults with HarperCollins Publishers and one for tween readers with Sourcebooks, with a sixth novel Morning in This Broken World being published by Lake Union in September 2023. Her third novel The Kindness of Strangers was a BookSense pick and won the 2006 Great Lakes Book Award for Fiction. Her fourth novel The Blessings of the Animals was an IndieNext pick, a Midwest Connections pick, and was chosen by the Women’s National Book Association as one of ten Great Group Reads for National Book Club Month (October 2010). Her novels center on themes of social justice and finding family and community outside the traditional definitions of those terms.

Katrina is a co-partner in Word’s Worth Writing Connections where she has taught creative writing courses on various aspects of the craft for the last 17 years. She is a public speaker, most often leading her “Leap and the Net Will Appear” and “Practicing Happiness” workshops. She gave a keynote address for the 2022 Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop and taught sessions on Voice and Revision for the Writer’s Digest 202 Novel Writing Conference in NYC. Katrina is a three-time recipient of an Individual Excellence Award Grant from the Ohio Arts Council, including one for 2018. Katrina enjoys gardening, collecting rescue animals, performing in community theatre productions and is always at work on another novel.

Courses taught

• ENG 280: Intro to Creative Writing
• ENG 310: Fiction Workshop
• ENG 315: Creative Nonfiction
• ENG 483: Novel Writing
• ENG 100: Writing Seminar I
• ENG 200: Writing Seminar II
• ENG 198: Honors Writing Seminar

Research interests

• Creative writing
• The writing process
• Post-apocalyptic literature
• Dystopian literature
• The novel of social conscience

Selected publications

• Traveling Light, Harper Collins, 2000
• Two Truths and a Lie, Harper Collins, 2001
• The Kindness of Strangers, Harper Collins, 2006
• The Blessings of the Animals, Harper Collins, 2010
• Reasons to Be Happy, Sourcebooks, 2011
• Morning in This Broken World, Lake Union, 2023