Kathryn Brown Ramsperger

Kathryn Brown Ramsperger is the author of The Shores of Our Souls, winner of a 2017 American Book Fest Best Book Award for Best New Fiction and a 2017 Foreword Indie Book Award for Multicultural Fiction. Her novel was also a Faulkner-Wisdom 2016 fiction finalist.

Ms. Ramsperger graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hollins University, earning a B.A. in English, and a graduate degree from George Washington University.

She worked as a journalist and publications director both nationally and internationally for such organizations as the National Geographic Society, Kiplinger, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent.

She’s lived and worked in Europe and Africa, travelling throughout the Middle East. In 2000, she formed her own communications company, Ramsperger Communications, focusing on global relief and development, multicultural communication, women’s and children’s issues, and peace building.

In 2010, she became a certified master creativity and intuition coach. A winner of the 1980 Hollins University Fiction Award, her work focuses on peace and the connections we all share.

An animal and nature lover, mother, spouse, and mezzo soprano, she currently lives in the D.C. suburbs. 

Books by Kathryn Brown Ramsperger

Book Reviews by Kathryn Brown Ramsperger

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“Its message of love’s power—the passion that ignites every day no matter our circumstances—to outlast war is captivating.”

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In echoing Dickens, Barbara Kingsolver has written a social justice novel all her own, one only she could write, for our time and for the ages.

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“You’ll open this novel because of history, read on because of story, and close it knowing more about your own life, right here, right now.”

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It may be tough to read complex novels in these days of social media platforms and fast food fiction, but Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Al-Sanousi, translated by Sawad Hussain, is worth your t

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“Each novel Man Booker finalist Deborah Levy writes comes nearer perfection.

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“Vanderah ’s beautifully human story reminds us that sometimes we need to look beyond the treetops at the stars to let some light into our lives.”

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International bestselling author Khaled Hosseini’s new work Sea Prayer, a glimpse of a final, treasured moment between father and son, does not disappoint.