Katherine Center

Katherine_Center_authorKatherine Center is the author of four bittersweet comic novels about love and family, including The Bright Side of DisasterEveryone Is Beautiful, Get Lucky, and The Lost Husband.  Her books and essays have appeared in RedbookPeopleUSA Today, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Real Simple, Houstonia, the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle, as well as the anthologies Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers on the Mother-Daughter BondMy Parents Were Awesome, and CRUSH: 26 Real Life Tales of First LovePeople Magazine calls The Lost Husband, “A sweet tale about creating the family you need.”  Library Journal calls Get Lucky a “thoroughly enjoyable girlish romp,” and Kirkus Reviews likens Everyone Is Beautiful to the 1950s motherhood classic Please Don’t Eat the Daisies: “Center’s breezy style invites the reader to commiserate, laughing all the way.”

BookPage named Katherine a new writer to watch, the Houston Press just named her a Top Ten writer in the city, and her first novel, which People calls “cleverly told and uncommonly appealing,” has been optioned by Varsity Pictures. Katherine recently signed a three-book deal with St. Martin’s Press, and those books are slated for February 2015, 2016, and 2017. Katherine sometimes blogs, FacebooksTweets, makes video essays, teaches writing, and speaks to all kinds of groups and book clubs.  (And sometimes she just hangs out at her house, writing books and goofing around.)  She lives in her hometown of Houston, TX, with her awesome husband, two sweet children, and their fluffy-but-fierce dog.