Author Profile

Author Profile -- Kimberley Heuston

Author Profile -- Kimberley Heuston

BORN: Provo, Utah

PARENTS: Dusty Heuston, CEO Waterford Institute, and Nancy Heuston, Head of School, the Waterford School

CHILDREN: Four plus two. Three boys and a girl, and two really great daughters-in-law.  Also a completely fabulous granddaughter named Zoë.

EDUCATION: BA, Harvard, History and Science, MFA in Writing for Children, Vermont College

PLACES LIVED: Utah, Massachusetts, New York City, Paris, Vermont, California

OTHER JOBS HELD: babysitter, secretary, librarian, teacher, fundraiser, software designer, tour guide

HOBBIES: travel and daydreaming

PHOBIAS: cleaning my sons' rooms

RECENT BOOKS: THE SHAKERESS (Front Street), DANTE'S DAUGHTER (Front Street), and THE BOOK OF JUDE (Front Street)

PUBLISH WITH: Deseret Book, Franklin Watts, Front Street Books, Harcourt, Oxford University Press

SCHOOL VISIT ACTIVITIES: assemblies and brainstorming workshops