s4e17, May 28th, 2026
Katherine Scott Crawford is an 11th generation Southerner, born and raised in South Carolina. At ten she climbed a shelf to nab her parents’ copy of Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides because its cover looked good and worn. Katherine double majored at Clemson University, moved to Charleston and earned a MA in English from the College of Charleston/The Citadel, studied in Italy, lived on Folly Beach, became an adjunct professor, and published her first historical novel, Keowee Valley in 2012. She was a columnist for Gannett with The Greenville News (SC) and the Asheville Citizen-Times(NC). She spent 13 years as a college English professor and earned an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Art.
