Katrina Kenison Biography

A graduate of Smith College Katrina Kenison spent many years working in publishing first as a literary editor at Houghton Mifflin Company in New Haven New York and Boston and then from 1990 through 2006 as the series editor of the best-selling The Best American Short Stories anthology published annually by Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt. She co-edited with John Updike The Best American Short Stories of the Century.
She is the author of Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother’s Memoir and Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment. Her YouTube video for The Gift of an Ordinary Day has well over two million views.
Katrina is also the author with her first yoga teacher Rolf Gates of Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga. With Kathleen Hirsch she co-edited an anthology of short stories about motherhood Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood. Her reminiscence of her friend and author Olive Ann Burns is included in Leaving Cold Sassy the unfinished sequel to the best-selling Cold Sassy Tree.

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