Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer (born February 6, 1965) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.
[3][6] It was a shortlisted finalist for the Toronto Book Award,[7] long listed for Canada Reads in 2016, and was a national bestseller.
Kuitenbrouwer has also been a book reviewer for The Globe and Mail and the National Post, and has published short fiction in Granta, The Walrus, Numéro Cinq, Significant Objects, Maclean's Magazine, and Storyville.
[8] In 2018, Kuitenbrouwer received a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Toronto, where she was supervised by Mari Ruti.
Her Ph.D. thesis is a psychoanalytic investigation into creativity, with special attention to the British novel in the eighteenth century.