McKenzie-Runk, Kathy

Award winning author of the Writer's Digest Annual Competition - "Flight to Freedom," inspired by the adoption of a Vietnamese orphan in the 1970's. Also finalist in the Writer's Network of South Florida's contest, "A Dolphin's Tale." Kathy sold her first article when she was 8 years old to the York Junior Dispatch, a publication in her community that encouraged children to write. As she grew older, many of her articles were published. Her fifth grade teacher said "Kathy's favorite thing to do is to write compositions." Kathy was always writing plays for her cub scout group to perform at holid...