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I'm a 37-year old mom who writes about the South, ghosts, dogs, love, Hoodoo, and family...etc. I grew up in Charleston, SC, and all of my books are set in the South. I used to write about my hometown, but I stopped because my mother kept getting upset.

I write every single day, first by hand and and then typing. I don't write for specific audiences, though my current project is a trilogy for teens. I've been writing all my life, and received my MFA from Columbia University and have won fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and the Sewanee Writers Conference. My books have been translated into Spanish, German, and Turkish. I read all of the time...yesterday it was The Great Gatsby. Again.

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Denmark Vesey


Jack Couter, aka Gullah Jack, was a slave owned by Paul Pritchard of Charleston, South Carolina, and he was one of the most important hoodoo root doctors in American history. He was executed in 1822. His crime? Rebellion. Most people have heard of Denmark Vesey, the freed slave in Charleston who was a carpenter, a minister, and the head of the largest planned slave revolt in Ame...

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Average rating: 2.95 · 6,385 ratings · 1,480 reviews · 5 distinct works
Girls in Trucks
2.83 of 5 stars 2.83 avg rating — 4,275 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions
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Men and Dogs: A Novel
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More of Katie's books…
“Without a bellyful of liquor, all I am is a woman who cracks stupid jokes to make up for being shy.”
Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“He doesn't bother to talk, and I don't either, but we look. We stare. And for a moment, I am sure of everything. For a second, with my bare feet on the fresh thick grass, there has not been, for any of us, even one mistake.”
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“Alex," Madison says through clenched teeth, "if you keep talking in bumper stickers, I am going to stab you in the face.”
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