KATHIE GIORGIO is the critically acclaimed author of eight novels, The Home For Wayward Clocks (The Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2011), Learning To Tell (A Life)Time (The Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2013), Rise From The River (The Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2015), In Grace’s Time (Black Rose Writing, 2017), If You Tame Me (Black Rose Writing, 2019), All Told (Austin Macauley Publishers, 2022), Hope Always Rises (Black Rose Writing, 2023), and Don’t Let Me Keep You (Black Rose Writing, 2024), as well as two story collections, Enlarged Hearts (The Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2012) and Oddities & Endings; The Collected Stories Of Kathie Giorgio (The Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2016), a collection of essays, Today’s Moment Of Happiness Despite The News; A Year Of Spontaneous Essays (Black Rose Writing, 2018), and four poetry books, True Light Falls In Many Forms (The Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2016), When You Finally Said No (Finishing Line Press, 2019), No Matter Which Way You Look, There Is More To See (Finishing Line Press, 2020) and Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku (Finishing Line Press, 2022). A new poetry book, Let Me Tell You; Let Me Sing, will be released by Kelsay Books in the fall of of 2025. Another new poetry book, The Birth Of A Widow, will be released by Kelsay Books in the fall of 2026. She’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction and poetry and awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association, the Silver Pen Award for Literary Excellence, the Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence, and the Eric Hoffer Award In Fiction. Her poem “Light” won runner-up in the 2021 Rosebud Magazine Poetry Prize and her poem, “Again”, won first prize in the Wisconsin Writers Association’s Jade Ring contest. She is a two-time winner of the Zona Gale Short Fiction Award, for her stories, “Quiet” and “Recipe”. Her short story, “Snapdragon”, was performed on stage for the Stories On Stage series at Su Teatro theatre in Boulder, Colorado. Her poem, “Harvest Moon”, was included in the Poetry Leaves exhibition in Waterford, Michigan. In a recent column, Jim Higgins, the books editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, included Giorgio in a list of the top 21 Wisconsin writers of the 21st century.
Besides being a writer, Giorgio is also the director and founder of the international creative writing studio, AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop LLC. AllWriters’ offers online and on-site courses and workshops in all genres and abilities of creative writing, as well as coaching and editing services. Thousands of writers worldwide have gotten their start at AllWriters’, and thousands have continued their career there. Giorgio has taught for 30 years.
Kathie lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Three of her adult children, Christopher, Andy, and Olivia, live close by, along with her solo granddaughter, Maya Mae. One adult child, Katie, has wandered off to Louisiana where she teaches at the University of Louisiana – Lafayette and lives among the mathematicians and alligators.