Kathy Stinson has loved reading all her life but was almost thirty before discovering that she loves writing too. Many of her picture books have been published internationally, including the classic Red Is Best and the award-winning The Man with the Violin. Kathy is also a novelist, short story writer, and poet. Mother, stepmother, and grandmother, she is still an avid reader who also enjoys photography, jigsaw puzzles, singing in a women's choir, and walking in the woods and fields near her home in Rockwood, Ontario.