Kristiana Gregory

Kristiana Gregory is a children’s and historical fiction author best known for her “Cabin Creek Mysteries” and contributions to the “Dear America” series. Gregory was brought up two blocks from the beach in Manhattan, California, and as a child spent a lot of time making up stories. She has asserted that the stories she would tell her younger sister and brother would leave them wide-eyed and this encouraged her to aspire to a writing career. At only eleven years, she got her first rejection letter for a poem she penned in a math class. As a fourth-grader, she got her first job in the school cafeteria washing trays and dishes. Over the years, she held a number of odd jobs that include reporter, telephone operator, camp counselor, lifeguard, columnist and book reviewer for the LA Times, before she finally achieved her dream of becoming an author. It was while she was working at the LA Times that she met the two most important mentors in her career in Charlie Ferrell and Art Seidenbaum. Her debut novel was “Jenny of the Tetons” that she first published in 1989. Kristiana has asserted that writing children’s fiction has been a dream come true. Since she also writes about history, she gets to blend facts with storytelling and get the opportunity to make happy endings even if things do not always end that well in history. She has been married for more than 30 years and currently lives in Boise Idaho with her husband, two grown sons and their golden retrievers.