Katherine Ayres is an American writer of children's literature and resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[4] Ayres was employed as an educator and elementary school principal during the early phase of her professional life.
[5] Roughly ninety thousand copies of her book were distributed to childcare and Head Start centers, family literacy programs and public libraries across Pennsylvania as part of the program, which was estimated to reach as may as five hundred thousand children that year.
[6][7] That same year, her poem, Roadside Shrine, was published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
[8] Ayres coordinates the Chatham University Master of Fine Arts Program in Children’s and Adolescent Writing in Pittsburgh.