Katie Spina

I have been a storyteller for as long as I can remember. I wrote my first book at the age of 9. I still have a copy of it in a folder in my office. To be honest, it's quite terrible. I was trying to write an Agatha Christie mystery tied into a soa opera drama without understanding why those two things wouldn't mesh.

In 2017, I started Awesome Authors Kids to lead classes to encourage kids to write anything and everything, so long as they had fun. Writing is a skill that improves with practice. The more kids are willing to practice, the better their skills get.

Sharing my passion with my students got me writing the kinds of stories I wanted to read as a kid. I took the fanfiction universe my friends and I created when we were teens and wrote a new story with our own kids as the heroes.

During the pandemic shutdown of 2020, I started going for walks on the nature trail behind my house. The more I walked, the more I saw the magic in the forest. I crafted a whole magic world called Gaeldor where kids can have soft adventures. The first book in the Adventures in Gaeldor series, The Wolf and The Wind, took the Bronze medal in the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards!

I am many things: a daughter, a mom, a spouse, a teacher. But most of all, I am a storyteller. Thank you for sharing my stories with your family.