Kathleen Walker

Like the narrator of her latest novel, The Daisy Farm, Kathleen Walker's family history includes ties to the North, South, East Coast and West. Much of her own history as a writer is centered in the American Southwest.

She earned awards for her reporting in CBS affiliates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Phoenix, Arizona, and for articles written for Arizona Highways magazine. Her two volumes on Spanish Colonial missions in Arizona and California - San Xavier: The Spirit Endures and A Place of Peace: San Juan Capistrano, were published by Arizona Highways.

Kathleen's first novel, A Crucifixion in Mexico, is based on an event she witnessed while a student at the Universidad de las Americas in Mexico City, Mexico. Her second novel, The Best in the West, centers on a television newsroom in the l970s as journalism begins its slide toward advocacy and entertainment. In her short story collection, Life in a Cactus Garden, the characters move through their relationships and challenges in the Southwest and Mexico. In Desert Mornings - Tales of Coffee, Cactus & Chaos, Kathleen takes her readers along on her own adventures, often humorous, in the desert country she knows so well.

At this time, Kathleen's part of the family history has come to a pleasant pause in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona.