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Kit Willihnganz began writing
as a child, relying on her parents to act as transcriptionists. She attmpted her first novel at the age of thirteen, realized she may have bitten off more than she could chew, and instead completed her first short story. Today she writes primarily young adult fiction, ocassionally trying her hand at poetry and memoir. | |
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A graduate of Indiana
University at Bloomingon, she is currently slated to complete her master of fine arts in writing at Spalding University this fall. Of balancing academic and personal writing, she says, "Spalding is where is go when I want to work hard, and Women Writing for (a) Change is where I go when I want to remember why I love writing."
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| Favorite Books |
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I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zuzak |
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Violet & Claire
by Francescia Lia Block | |
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| Current Writing |
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The Child Abbess
A young adult novel about an 11-year-old girl who is orphaned when the Black Death hits England, spends two years begging and stealing to survive, and then joins a convent in order to have a place to sleep. |
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The Use of Mitigating Elements in Young Adult Time Travel Literature
Kit's master's thesis discusses how authors writing about time travel make their stories believable. | |
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