KATHARINE STANLEY BROWN ABBOTT is the author of Cobblestones and Ice Cream Cones-A Trip to Nantucket in Rhymes (2019), A Zoo Full of Rhymes (2020), and Henrietta (2022). She has also written two memoirs and co-written three cookbooks and a commemorative book for a women's social club. She considers herself a generalist. Her eclectic interests include needlepoint, knitting, cooking, travel, reading, tennis, and life-long volunteerism. She is also an accomplished collage artist whose work has been exhibited and sold in juried shows, art festivals, and open studios. Abbott is a graduate of Vassar College, the mother of four adult children, and grandmother to five grandchildren. She is widowed and a resident of Manchester, Massachusetts.