Kathleen Tailer

Kathleen has always loved writing, and as a senior in high school, she won first place and an Elks Club Scholarship for writing an essay entitled What America Means to Me. She traveled to Brazil for a year as a Rotary Club foreign exchange student and then returned to the University of New Mexico to pursue her Bachelor of Arts degree in Portuguese. While studying at UNM, she wrote an essay that was published in The University of New Mexico Honors Review, and also served in the Army National Guard. She graduated Magna Cum Laude, and then attended law school at Florida State University where she received her Juris Doctorate degree in 1993. In her "spare time," she wrote her first novel entitled Children in the Wind. During law school, she served on the editorial staff of the Journal of Transnational Law and Policy, and tutored other law students in legal writing and other subjects. After law school, she worked as a legislative analyst for the Florida State Senate until her first child was born, after which she became a stay at home mom and home-schooled her children.

Kathleen and her husband became medical foster parents, and while caring for a number of foster children and her own biological children, she had three articles published in Fostering Families Today. She went back to work in 2004 as an attorney for the Department of Children and Families, first as a trial attorney handling child abuse cases and later as Assistant General Counsel at the DCF General Counsel's Office. She now works for the Office of Court Improvement for the Supreme Court of Florida where she works on programs that are designed to enhance and improve family courts throughout Florida. Kathleen also worked closely with the Open Door Adoption Agency from Thomasville, Georgia, to find Christian homes for orphaned children from foreign countries.

Kathleen and her husband Jim have been married since 1993 and are the parents of eight children, five of which are special needs children that she and her husband adopted. The University of New Mexico alumni magazine honored the family by featuring them in an article in October, 2004. They recently moved from their mini-farm to a small oasis in Shell Point, Florida where Kathleen and her husband can kayak, bike, and spend time with awesome neighbors.

Kathleen is a Christian and serves as a drummer on her church's worship team. She also taught business law to online students through Liberty University.

On her webpage KathleenTailer.com, a user can find more information about her books, and also several Bible studies from around the globe.

Note: To those who noticed that Children in the Wind had formatting problems, thanks for letting me know! I believe those have been resolved now, and to ensure the quality is top notch, the book was professionally edited by Kendall Tribus in 2021.