C K MacDonald

C. K. MacDonald is the pen name for Cecelia (McMahon) MacDonald and Kathryn (MacDonald) Schneeman. Mother and daughter graduated together from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Cecelia earned degrees in Journalism and Geology. Kathryn earned a degree in Education with a concentration in Humanities.

Cecelia grew up in a large Irish Catholic family of story-tellers. Born in Billings, Montana, she also lived in Wyoming and Virginia, but has earned bragging rights as a year-round Minnesotan. She is the proud mother of three productive citizens and the grandmother of 12 (perfect) children. She is definitely a late bloomer, graduating from college in her forties and beginning a career in grant-writing in her fifties. She delayed pursuing her passion for fiction writing until she had enough maturity to grapple with point-of-view issues.

Kathryn spent a pivotal semester in Dublin running on the cobblestones, crawling into the pubs, and studying at Trinity College and Abbey Theatre. She enjoyed early careers as a fashion model and elementary school teacher and later served as a coordinator in the Office of Marriage and Family Life for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. As her family grew larger (and larger) she gained notoriety by regularly penning anecdotes about her nine children for the Bulletin Board section of the St. Paul Pioneer Press under the handle “Mom of Many in Mendota Heights.” She derives her energy and stamina from her smokin’ hot husband, Eric.