KFP

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation writer/editor/author
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Introduction Kathye Fetsko Petrie is a freelance writer; the editor/publisher/founder (2002) of Local LIT, the online publication of literary events and resources in the Philadelphia area; and the author of the children’s picture book, Flying Jack (2003; Boyds Mills Press). She is married to award-winning Philadelphia International Flower Show designer and garden artist Michael Petrie, owner of Michael Petrie’s HANDMADE GARDENS.
Interests Books, reading, writers, writing, family
Favorite Movies After Sunset, Green Card, The Last of the Mohicans, The Emperor's Club, The Mission, The Tree of Life
Favorite Books FICTION: A History of Love by Nicole Krauss; The World According to Garp by John Irving; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; To Dance with the White Dog by Terry Kay. NON-FICTION: The Diving Bell & the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby; A Slant of Sun by Beth Kephart; Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Ann Fadiman; Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott; Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott; In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick; We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch