Kay Freeman was born in Buffalo, NY, USA, and moved five times before graduating high school. A perpetual outsider, she immersed herself in books. She holds an MFA in visual art and served as an art professor in South Jersey for over twenty-three years, receiving a mid-career fellowship for her teaching and service-learning projects in underserved communities. Transitioning to the world of romance writing, her manuscript was selected by the Romance Writers of America mentorship program, RAMP. Her debut novel, Truth Moon, was published by The Wild Rose Press, Scarlet Imprint, in the spring of 2023.Kay believes a well-crafted romance takes you on a journey, offering healing to both the author and the reader. She now resides in Wilmington, DE, and loves writing about damaged characters transformed by love. With over three hundred hours of yoga teacher training and having completed a ten-day Vipassana Meditation Retreat, Kay draws inspiration from these experiences. Her novels, each a labor of love, feature hard-won happily ever-afters involving spiritual journeys and transformations for her main characters. Other Worlds marks her seventh novel, with five additional books published in the gothic and suspense romance genres.Kay has won several awards for her writing. In 2022 Hitman’s Honey, won third place in Mid Atlantic Author Society’s Romance Contest and in 2024, her novel Leather Man was one of three finalists in Passionate Ink’s Passionate Plume Contemporary Short Category. Her novel The Flower Queen topped Amazon’s Best Seller List, climbing to number eleven in June 2023 in the Historical Romance, 20th Century category. She also writes a free publication on substack called What Do Romance Writers Think About to give back to her community of writers who have given so much to her. Besides her passion for art, reading, and writing, she loves the blues, tequila, and her husband Barry. Kay lives in Wilmington, DE. Read more about this authorRead less about this author