Katy Newton Naas

From the time she was old enough to talk, Katy Newton Naas has been creating characters and telling stories. As a child, they sometimes got her into trouble. She knew she wanted to write books when she won a Young Author's competition as a second-grader for her short story titled, "The Grape Pie." (Don't let its tasty title fool you - it was actually a sad little tale!) Katy devoured books as a child and young adult, always doing chores and odd jobs in order to make enough money to buy more of them. Though she continues to age, her true literature love is and has always been children's and young adult fiction. Katy currently teaches middle school reading and language arts in southern Illinois and serves as youth leader in her church. She graduated from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale with a bachelor's degree in English Education and a master's degree in Reading and Language Studies. She spend much of her free time chasing her two sweet and rowdy young boys along with all her other “kids”: four dogs, three cats, and eight ducks. She enjoys life out in the country with her husband and kids and does her best to dedicate everything in her life to serving our amazing, loving God.