Kathy Lee Sumner

After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Auburn University, Kathy Lee Sumner wrote and freelanced for several publications along Florida's gulf coast, from her hometown of Pensacola to Naples where she resided from 1993 to 2018.

While living in Naples, in 2003, she began writing novels as a hobby while raising her two children and working on her Florida teaching certification. In 2006, her father was diagnosed with lung cancer. This motivated Sumner to finish one of the manuscripts she had been creating, chapters of which she would send him to read for entertainment while he was ill. Also a native Floridian, he would add character traits and suggest setting locations--several are used throughout the storyline. Sumner was able to share the final chapters with her father before he passed in 2006.

The manuscript CAPTIVA ISLAND - A NOVEL was chosen as a semi-finalist in the very first 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novelist Contest (ABNA), and when published in late 2009, Sumner dedicated the book to her father.

Kathy continues to write and enjoy life on Florida's coast.