| Kathryn Trueblood | |
| Education: | University of California, Berkeley University of Washington |
| Occupation: | Professor of English Writer |
| Employer: | Western Washington University |
Kathryn Trueblood is an American author. 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 work has been critically well received by major publishing trade magazines like Kirkus Reviews[4] and Publishers Weekly.[5]
Trueblood was born and raised in California. She attended the Avalon School, a unified K-12 school on Catalina Island. She matriculated from University of California, Berkeley, and went on to study at University of Washington, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. She now lives in Washington.
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.