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Katherine Billings Palmer is an author, poet, and essayist from Garden City, Michigan. She retired from her technical writing career in 2022 to pursue her writing career. Her current book, My Story: A Memoir in Poetry and Prose is a compilation of more than 100 poems and essays about life, death, love, mistakes, and coming to terms with mortality. It’s now available in print and Kindle versions on Amazon.

In 2017, Katherine’s husband, Rick, died of complications from small cell lung cancer. She wrote a series of poems and essays about her struggles to cope with her grief. Her book of poetry, I Wanted to Grow Old With You, is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions. In January 2019, she published, A Widow’s Words: Grief, Reflecti ...more

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