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Short bio
Katherine Scott Crawford is the award-winning author of The Miniaturist’s Assistant and Keowee Valley. A former backpacking guide, adjunct professor, and recovering academic, her newspaper column appeared weekly across the country and abroad, including in USA Today, The Detroit Free Press, the Herald Scotland, and more. Winner of the 2025 Sir Walter Raleigh Award in fiction by the state of North Carolina, she holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She’d rather be in the woods with her dog than anywhere else, enjoys curious people, adventure, and snow—and believes historical fiction the best way to time travel. An eleventh-generation Southerner, she directs writing retreats at a remote mountain lodge in Western North Carolina, where she lives with her family.
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Publicist: Lauren Harr, Gold Leaf Literary; lauren@goldleafliterary.com
Literary Agent: Joelle Delbourgo, Joelle Delbourgo Associates, Inc.; joelle@delbourgo.com
Publisher: Regal House Publishing; info@regalhousepublishing.com
Awards & kudos
Sir Walter Raleigh Award, North Carolina Book Awards, NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, NC, 2025
Writer-in-Residence, Weymouth Center for the Arts, NC, 2024
Writer-in-Residence, Wildacres Retreat, NC, 2024
Writer-in-Residence, South Porch Arts, SC, 2024
North Carolina Poetry Society, First Place Winner, Thomas H. McDill Contest, 2022
HOLT Medallion Award, Historical Fiction, Virginia Romance Writers, 2013
Quarter-Finalist, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest, 2011
Full Merit Scholarship, The Sun Magazine, 2011
Full Fellowship in Fiction, Vermont Studio Center, 2008
North Carolina Arts Award in Fiction, NC Arts Council, 2007-2008
Literary Arts Award, The Santa Fe Writers Project, Robert Olen Butler: Judge, 2007
Writer-in-Residence, Montana Artists Refuge, 2007
education
MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts
MA in English from the College of Charleston/ The Citadel
BA in English from Clemson University
BA in Speech & Communication Studies from Clemson University