Kathryn Brown Ramsperger

Kathryn Brown Ramsperger began her writing career with newspapers, then investigative reporting. As a researcher and writer for National Geographic and Kiplinger, and later, as a humanitarian journalist working throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, she met countless courageous people facing disaster, famine, and war. Their stories inspired both of Kathryn's novels. Kathryn now lives in Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC with her husband. They have two adult children, bound for their own creative adventures.

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Kathryn wrote her debut novel, The Shores of Our Souls, in response to 9/11’s Ground Zero, because she wanted to center and align people and shift societal prejudices and labels. As a young adult, she devoured novels by writers who cared about social justice: Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Eudora Welty (a frequent visitor to her university campus), Barbara Kingsolver, and Anne Lamott. Her favorite novel is John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Her most recent novel, A Thousand Flying Things, won a Foreword Indies, a Royal Dragonfly, and was The Pulpwood Queen's Book Club International Book of the Year. It also was a Sarton, Hemingway, and Faulkner-Wisdom finalist.

Kathryn wanted to shift the world through words and stories. Every summer she sat on a wooden porch swing, listening to friends and relatives weave stories of the day, the weather, local politics, and news from all around. Yet she wanted to leave and live far beyond that porch.

MANY VOICES

As she began to travel the world, Kathryn still felt a longing to tell stories, carrying family love and Southern lore with her.

ONE WORLD

Through her journey, she’s come to see the world as One. Decades from that porch swing, she continues to share stories, connecting neighbors from one continent to the next. She’s given a voice to the homeless, people with AIDS, patients searching for a blood or bone marrow donor, neighborhoods ravaged by disaster, refugees fleeing poverty and civil strife, and migrants fleeing war.

INFINITE POSSIBILITIES

Kathryn’s used words to:

• win the Hollins University Fiction Award for her first novel Moments On The Edge,

• write award-winning nonfiction,

• direct an international publications department,

• own a cause-related marketing business,

• create her umbrella company, Ground One, to search for solutions that will result in social change,

• receive literary and cause-related marketing awards,

• sing as a mezzo soprano,

• shake the hands of Jimmy Carter, Princess Diana, and Nelson Mandela,

• break bread with Kinky Friedman and Marita Golden,

• meet people on almost every continent,

• teach and speak to people searching for peace and grounding, in a world that sometimes seems all chaos.

All of her writing focuses on the search for peace and the connections we all share.