Kathy Mansfield enjoys life with her husband, Rick. Kathy is originally from Louisiana but has called Kentucky her home for the last 27 years. She is an award-winning school librarian who served as elementary library media specialist in four different Kentucky schools, running the gamut from inner city to suburban to rural. Kathy recently retired as the library media/textbooks consultant for the KY Department of Education.

Kathy's love of poetry began at an early age, but she didn't start writing her own poems until she was an adult. Inspiration for her Bible poetry came from summers spent with her grandma in Arkansas. "Grandma and I would talk about different Bible stories and about how important God was in our lives. I started to make poems out of some of our favorite Bible passages."

A love for encouraging children to read combined with the joy of creating Bible poems resulted in Kathy's first book, . . . And a Poem. Visit www.andapoem.com to see samples from that book and from the recently released second volume, . . . And a Poem, Too.