Kathryn Brown Ramsperger is a Washington, D.C.-based writer who worked for National Geographic and Kiplinger, but whose family (and its ghosts) live on South Carolina farmland. Her work, which bridges growing up Southern and the intuitive with pragmatic, objective humanitarian journalism from all across the globe, has appeared in many literary journals including Willow Review and The MacGuffin. Kathryn’s third award-winning novel A Thousand Flying Things (TPP June 2023) was a Faulkner-Wisdom literary finalist.