Biographical note
Kathryn Martin taught English literature and composition in public and private schools from 1941 through 1967. She also published one novel, The Departure, a nonfiction book about her teaching experiences, A Question of Age: The Dorm and I, and several works of poetry. She has a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and has completed graduate work at the University of Southern California, San Francisco State University, and the University of Utah. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire in 1960, 1961, 1974. and 1977. She has two children.