In 1989, Katie Singer left her job as Writer in Residence at South Boston High School and headed west to write the story of a Jewish family, inspired by stories she has been collecting all her life. The result of her nine-year odyssey is The Wholeness of a Broken Heart, her first novel. Katie's work has been published in Lilith, Heresies, Sojourner, and the Jewish Women's 1997 Annual, among other publications. She lives in New Mexico.