During college she worked part-time at the astronomy library at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Following her graduation, she spent several years working at a small advertising agency before returning to CUNY to pursue a master's degree.
Shortly after finishing her third story, Kitt read an article in The New York Times about an editor who was beginning a new line of books for Harlequin.
[2] Her novels featured African-American characters, who rarely appeared in the gothic romances which she enjoyed reading.
[3] Kitt was one of the first authors within women's fiction to write from both the female and male point of view.
[2] Unafraid to tackle social issues in her works, Kitt has used her novels to study surrogate motherhood, abandoned children, race relations, and interracial/class differences.