Kenzie grew up a mostly proper Southern lady in Bluff Park, a suburb of
Birmingham, AL in a mostly improper Southern household. She now lives in a
suburb Northeast of Atlanta, GA. She married her college sweetheart and has two
sons. She is adored by a Pit Bull and tolerated by two cats. All of this means she’s
highly suspicious of a quiet house and has an automatic response time of less
than 5 seconds to the sound of an animal gagging.
She drinks far too much Diet Coke and feels like she can tackle anything as
long as she has a book showing her how.
Though other interests have come and gone, four obsessions have remained
constant: horses, photography, reading, and writing.
She has always been a voracious reader. From Dr.
Seuss she moved to Steven Cosgrove and from there to Judy Blume. It snowballed
after that, with Kenzie reading everything from epic fantasy to old copies of
National Geographic and the back of cereal boxes.
It wasn’t long before her imagination spilled
out of other writers’ books and into her own stories. By junior high she had an
impressive notebook collection of half-finished novels. In high school she
discovered the Romance genre and had many book boyfriends she still remembers
fondly.
Her love of kissy books continued when she moved
to Mobile, AL to pursue Marine Biology at The University of South Alabama.
After failing miserably at chemistry, she switched majors and completed an
English degree. After graduation she found herself in the advertising world and
worked as a graphic designer and marketing assistant.
Her second career as chief child wrangler (Mom)
consumed most of her energy (creative and otherwise) until April 2017 when the
characters in her head demanded their stories be told. She’s been writing ever
since.