NAL/Penguin Putnam (Swimming with the Dead, Dark Water Dive, Dangerous Depths, and Under Pressure).
She has co-authored a memoir with her son, Max Maddox, titled A Checkered Parachute which is now being shopped by her agent. An excerpt of that book was a finalist for the 2009 Iowa Review Award in Non-Fiction.
She has also completed her fifth novel about a young woman with bipolar disorder who is convicted of murder.
She has published articles on parenting, health, and travel in dozens of magazines such as Women's Sports and Fitness, Scouting, Yachting, Cruising World, and Complete
Woman.
After her son was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1999, Kathy became involved in mental health issues. She is on the board of directors and serves as Vice President for the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Colorado Springs. She also directs that organizations Family-to-Family Program, which supports and offers free classes to families who have mentally ill relatives.
Kathy has presented workshops and moderated panels at national conventions.
Kathy has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Rhetoric and taught writing at the University of Colorado for ten years before becoming a full-time author.
She lives in Colorado.
