Collins Memorial Library in collaboration with Pierce County Reads presents:
An Evening with Kristina McMorris
Award-winning women’s fiction author
Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012
7-8:30 p.m.
Collins Library, Room 020
Kristina McMorris lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two sons. Her foray into fiction began in the fall of 2006 as a result of interviewing her grandmother for the biographical section of a self-published cookbook intended as a holiday gift for the family. Inspired by her grandparents’ wartime courtship, Kristina penned her first novel, a WWII love story titled Letters from Home.
Endorsed by Woman’s Day and praised by Publishers Weekly as “a sweeping debut,” Letters from Home was released in spring 2011, from Kensington Books and Avon/HarperCollins UK, to wide critical acclaim. The novel was a Doubleday Book Club alternate selection and a Reader’s Digest Select Editions condensed feature. Destined to be a book club favorite, Kristina’s forthcoming novel, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves (March 2012), is a WWII love story complicated by the U.S. internment of Japanese Americans, told from surprising perspectives rarely explored in literature.
Prior to her career as an author, Kristina acted in numerous independent films and major motion pictures, and owned a professional wedding/event planning company. She began hosting an Emmy Award-winning television show at age nine, and most recently served as the six-year host of the WB’s weekly program Weddings Portland Style. Her previous writing background includes being a contributing writer for Portland Bride & Groom magazine and ten years of directing public relations for an international conglomerate. The recipient of more than twenty national literary awards, McMorris is currently working on her next novel.
website: www.KristinaMcMorris.com