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Short Bio: Katherine Rothschild is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, a former ballet and Arabic dance instructor, and an obsessive Twitter food truck-follower. Her first-person essays have been published on KQED/NPR, in The San Francisco Chronicle, and other Bay Area and California publications. She holds an MFA in Fiction Writing, a PhD in Composition and Applied Linguistics, has received artist’s grants from Vermont Studio Center and Kindlings West, and is a longtime member of the SCBWI. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. Her debut novel is Wider Than the Sky from Soho Teen. Find her on Twitter @Kath_Rothschild.
Fun Bio: Kath Rothschild never thought she would teach at Stanford University--she had trouble reading through third grade! Now, people find it hard to believe that Kath spends her days teaching Stanford students to write, making her character's lives much worse (before she makes them better) and reading to her daughters, who have strong opinions about all things books (dog and bear books are the best books). She lives in Oakland with her family and two cats: one is grumpy. The other is the happiest cat on earth. Find her posting Caturday images on Twitter @Kath_Rothschild.
Long Bio: Kath wrote her first novels in tri-color ink on binder paper in Mr. Zedaker’s seventh grade biology classroom. If you’re curious, it was a teen camp romance—of course! And she kept writing from there.
She was accepted into UC Irvine’s undergraduate creative writing program, and studied with Michelle Latiolais and Geoffrey Wolff. At the end of her senior year, Geoff Wolff pulled her aside and told her “if you don’t continue writing, it will be a mistake. Go to grad school.” So she did. She attended St. Mary’s MFA program and studied with Lynn Freed, John Fleming, Rosemary Graham, and Lou Berney--all amazing teachers and award-winning writers.
Although Kath earned an MFA in Creative Writing in her early twenties, she didn’t start “seriously writing” until she realized the kind of writer that she is—a children’s book author. Her dear friend Jennifer Bertman of Book Scavenger fame sent her Sarah Dessen’s The Truth About Forever and it changed her life. She knew THIS was the kind of book she wanted to write. So she did.
Now, Kath writes from her Bay Area home and teaches at Stanford University in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. In addition to holding an MFA, she holds a PhD in Composition and Applied Linguistics from IUP and is conducting a grant-funded four-university research study on writing knowledge transfer. She publishes on feminist rhetorics, social justice in higher education, and writing knowledge transfer. She has been published by Purdue University Press, Curriculum & Pedagogy, and Feminist Media Studies, and has several forthcoming works in academia. For samples of those publications, click and scroll to the end.