Kat Karpenko

Kat Karpenko was born in Canada to Ukrainian parents. A native of Windsor, Ontario where much of her family still resides, she has also lived in Edmonton, Bristol and London, England, and Melbourne, Australia, but has spent most of her life in Nova Scotia where she worked in various administrative capacities at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Now retired, she divides her time between Mazatlán, Mexico, and Canada.

While living in Nova Scotia she also taught the art of making pysanky, the ornate Easter eggs that are part of Ukrainian culture, and took part in TV interviews during the Easter season.

She has had a varied writing career in technical writing, journalism, short stories. Her love of Nova Scotia and its history inspired her first novel, Emma’s Ghost. Her latest novel, The Photograph, was a tribute to her paternal grandparents who left Ukraine in 1928. More information can be viewed on her website https://www.katkarpenko.com