Kristin McGlothlin Author

Before becoming an award-winning author, Kristin McGlothlin was the assistant curator of education at the Norton Museum of Art, where she designed and managed the Norton’s art and music programs. She has a BA in Art History and a BA and MA in English. Her Master’s thesis was on the author/illustrator Edward Gorey. McGlothlin wrote and created the artwork for the children’s picture book Andy’s Snowball Story, about the contemporary artist Andy Goldsworthy. Her poem “California T-shirt” was published in the literary magazine Coastlines, and “Roman Ruins in a Modern City” won a haiku contest and was read on Travel with Rick Steves. McGlothlin’s short story “The Red Door” was one of twenty-three finalists among more than four hundred entries in the Florida Weekly 2018 Writing Challenge. Drawing with Whitman, is the first in the four-book Sourland Mountain Series, which includes the recently released Listen. Drawing with Whitman is the winner of the 2019 Moonbeam Silver Medal for Pre-Teen Fiction. A writer since she was thirteen, only now, like a million years later, has she settled upon it as her career.