Katie Sullivan was raised in the Midwest and grew up in a large, close-knit Irish Catholic family. Katie is the mother of three teenagers, and she has been writing since they were babies. She currently resides in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, and has worked for Charleston County School District for eleven years. She graduated from Wright State University with a degree in History. Rocks, Paper, Flowers is her first novel. Pat Conroy's literary endorsement: "Katie Sullivan's first novel, Rocks, Paper, Flowers, tells a heartbreaking story of the loss of an extraordinary woman. The book is also wild, hilarious, and a compendium of hard wit and wisdom. Those lucky enough to read the novel Rocks, Paper, Flowers have 'salt'—all the salt you could possibly need."