Katy Grant

Katy Grant is a bestselling children’s fiction author from Arizona. She was brought up the youngest of three siblings in a small town of Tennessee and still remembers that her older brother Andy who was five years her senior would always pick on her. Nan who was twelve years older than her was afflicted by rheumatoid arthritis and was in a wheelchair, which meant she could not do anything to protect her sister. Nonetheless, her sister always made her feel special by saying she was a neat little kid. A few weeks after she turned ten, she lost her mother and things only became worse when her father remarried. Elisabeth her stepmother was not a great fit and the two hated each other since she wanted a girly daughter that went to parties, wore dresses, and was popular. However, Grant was a tomboy that preferred grubby sneakers and jeans and preferred riding her bike and climbing trees rather than going to parties. This caused a lot of tension as her stepmother was the perfectionist and when Katy did anything she did not as it would turn into a huge argument. Given the toxic home environment, Grant found her escape in books, which she used to enter a different world from the unhappy one that was her lot. Once she left for college, she swore never to go back until Elisabeth was exorcised and spent much of her time in summer camp during the holidays. The time she spent in summer camp provides a lot of inspiration for her novels.