Kathleen Ernst

Bestselling author Kathleen Ernst writes mysteries, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for adults and young readers. Her work has earned numerous honors, including two lifetime writing achievement awards, an Emmy for educational television, and an Edgar Allan Poe and multiple Agatha Christie mystery award nominations. To date nearly 1.8 million audio, ebook, and print copies of Kathleen's forty published books have been purchased. Her newest is "Balancing - Poems of the Female Immigrant Experience in the Upper Midwest, 1830-1930," from Little Creek Press. It is available from Amazon in trade paperback and Kindle ebook formats. Kathleen's newest Chloe Ellefson Historic Sites mystery is "The Weaver's Revenge," the eleventh book in this popular series, now on Amazon from HenschelHAUS Publishing Three Towers Press in trade paperback and Kindle ebook formats. And arriving this November will be "Lies of Omission," the inaugural book in Kathleen's new Hanneke Bauer historical fiction series from Level Best Books. Kathleen has a Masters Degree in History Education and Writing from Antioch University, where her self-designed program focused on non-traditional methods of teaching and learning history, with a special emphasis on historical fiction. Kathleen lives in Wisconsin with her husband Scott (AKA "Mr. Ernst"). Some of her greatest pleasures include gardening, learning folk crafts, researching new books, and hearing from readers. She maintains an extensive website, kathleenernst.com, as well as an author's page on Facebook, facebook.com/kathleenernst.author, and blog, sitesandstories.wordpress.com.