Katherine Ashenburg is a Canadian writer best known for her 2018 debut novel Sofie & Cecilia.
Ashenburg began her career as a CBC Radio producer, eventually becoming an editor at The Globe and Mail newspaper.
[1] In 1996 Ashenburg published her first book, Going to Town: Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario.
[2] Ashenberg released her debut novel Sofie & Cecilia a few months shy of her 73rd birthday.
Ashenburg originally told Bergöö Larsson's story to her friend author Jane Urquhart, hoping that she would turn it into a novel, but Urquhart instead suggested Ashenberg write the story herself.