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Author Bio
• Birth—July 27, 1947
• Where—Washington, DC, USA
• Raised—in Lemmon, South Dakota; Honolulu, Hawaii
• Education—B.A., Bennington College (Vermont)
• Currently—lives in South Dakota and Hawaii
Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk and Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. Norris has also published seven books of poetry.
A popular speaker, she is an editor at large at The Christian Century. A recipient of grants from the Bush and Guggenheim foundations, she has been in residence twice at the Collegeville Institute at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, and is an oblate of Assumption Abbey in North Dakota. (From the publisher.)