Kimberley Griffiths Little
Biography
Kimberley Griffiths Little was born in San Francisco, but now lives in a place she never dreamed she would reside—a solar adobe house near the banks of the Rio Grande in New Mexico with her husband, a robotics engineer, and their three sons.
As soon as Kimberley knew how to sound out words, she was devouring a book a day, and knew that she wanted to create that same magic her favorite authors did by writing a book someday, too. She wrote a ghost story in 6th grade and her first novel in 9th grade. The gothic romance attempt—a genre all the rage at the time—was written during Fourth Period Choir class and read by her girlfriends as she churned out pages "hot off the press" in longhand while the altos drilled their notes.
Majoring in English at Brigham Young University, Kimberley soon switched to Piano Pedagogy when she realized that she didn't want to become an English teacher, but rather a writer of children's books. In her past life, Kimberley has sold grandfather clocks in a European boutique at the mall, worked for a CPA during tax season, waitressed at J.B.'s Big Boy to put herself through college, and taught upwards of 20 piano students while homeschooling her three boys and writing, writing, writing whenever she could scribble a few sentences.
Dozens of her short stories have been published in Cricket, Children's Digest, The New Era, The Friend, Family Circle, and even True Love where they changed her byline to "protect the innocent".
Winner of the Southwest Book Award, Kimberley's published titles are Breakaway, Enchanted Runner, and The Last Snake Runner. Her writing has been praised as "fast-paced and dramatic", with "characters painted in memorable detail" and "beautifully realized settings". Watch for Kimberley's new novels set in Cajun Louisiana, the Middle East, Paris, ancient Egypt, and Scotland!
As soon as Kimberley knew how to sound out words, she was devouring a book a day, and knew that she wanted to create that same magic her favorite authors did by writing a book someday, too. She wrote a ghost story in 6th grade and her first novel in 9th grade. The gothic romance attempt—a genre all the rage at the time—was written during Fourth Period Choir class and read by her girlfriends as she churned out pages "hot off the press" in longhand while the altos drilled their notes.
Majoring in English at Brigham Young University, Kimberley soon switched to Piano Pedagogy when she realized that she didn't want to become an English teacher, but rather a writer of children's books. In her past life, Kimberley has sold grandfather clocks in a European boutique at the mall, worked for a CPA during tax season, waitressed at J.B.'s Big Boy to put herself through college, and taught upwards of 20 piano students while homeschooling her three boys and writing, writing, writing whenever she could scribble a few sentences.
Dozens of her short stories have been published in Cricket, Children's Digest, The New Era, The Friend, Family Circle, and even True Love where they changed her byline to "protect the innocent".
Winner of the Southwest Book Award, Kimberley's published titles are Breakaway, Enchanted Runner, and The Last Snake Runner. Her writing has been praised as "fast-paced and dramatic", with "characters painted in memorable detail" and "beautifully realized settings". Watch for Kimberley's new novels set in Cajun Louisiana, the Middle East, Paris, ancient Egypt, and Scotland!
