Kit and Drew Coons

Kit and Drew Coons met while doing humanitarian work in Africa in 1980. Drew was an engineer bringing clean water to nineteen cities and towns. Kit taught in a teacher's college. “Kit was living in a mud house with a metal roof and no running water or electricity,” Drew recalls. “She is as tough as a hickory nut.”

Drew received honors degrees in engineering from both Auburn and Georgia Tech. He worked on the Delta Rocket program and designed critical components for the Space Shuttle. Later he served as a researcher for BASF Corporation and received twenty-three US and several international patents.

Kit has an honors degree in education from the University of Minnesota. She is a gifted teacher and blogger with an undaunted spirit regardless of the circumstances.

As humorous speakers specializing in strengthening relationships, the Coonses have spoken in every part of the US and in thirty-nine other countries. For two years they lived and taught in New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. They are keen cultural observers and incorporate their travels into their writing. Readers say, "I feel like I've visited the novel locations."

For decades, the Coonses wrote written how-to manuals distributed around the world. In the US, they have had articles and stories published in twelve periodicals that reached about a million readers in 2021. Kit and Drew received several cash prizes as part of a writers association and had two stories published in an anthology by the Columbia Writer’s Guild.

Kit and Drew have authored seven wholesome novels with fish-out-of-water themes. Their characters, who frequently perceive themselves to be ordinary, find within themselves courage and ability in desperate situations. The Coonses are unusual in that they speak and write as a team. Readers thereby get both a male and a female perspective.