Kathryn Trueblood

Kathryn Trueblood is an American author who lives in Washington. She is most known as a writer of fiction whose work focuses on the medical humanities.[1] She is the recipient of the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction from the Bellevue Literary Review[2] and the 2011 Red Hen Press Short Story Award.[3] Trueblood's has work has been critically well received by major publishing trade magazines like Kirkus Reviews[4] and Publishers Weekly.[5]

Kathryn Trueblood
Education	University of California, Berkeley University of Washington
Occupation(s)	Professor of English Writer
Employer	Western Washington University
Website	kathryntrueblood.com

Trueblood was born and raised in California. She attended the Avalon School (California), a unified K-12 school on Catalina Island. She matriculated from University of California, Berkeley and went on to University of Washington, where she earned an Master of Fine Arts degree.

Trueblood has twice been diagnosed with a chronic illness, first Graves disease, and then Crohn's.[6] She has been frank about the challenges of parenting with a chronic illness[7] and the influences this has on her writing.