Kat McMann

Raised in Kennebunk, Maine, Kat McMann moved to a farm shortly after she started high school, which later influenced a wide range of children’s books. She graduated from Fisher College in 1986 with an Associate of Science in the Executive Secretarial Program. Liking accounting more than she did secretarial work, she worked in the accounting field for over two decades while building her own bookkeeping business. Although she made a career with numbers, words always remained her passion. Once she had her second child at almost 40, she began fostering her creative side by putting a decades-old poem that she wrote as a teen into a book that she made with crayons and construction paper to entertain her youngest. Her daughter’s love for the book encouraged her to publish it.

Today, she excels as an author, publisher, and web designer for her blogs, “Ask the Kat” and “Morning Thoughts”, while also maintaining her website katmcmann.com and bookkeeping business, Checks and Balances Accounting Services, which she started in 2000.

Kat McMann has written and published 12 children’s books, including her latest book, Liberty Acres and the Terrible Scare, which was inspired by the Coronavirus pandemic and dedicated to the frontline workers and first responders for their courage and dedication. Other works include Liberty Acres, Rosie Horse, Katie Cow, Grady Goat, Clancy Pig, Jax Dog, Tate Cat, Moe Mouse, Libby Lou Ladybug, Baby Nut Nuts and I'm Awful Glad I'm Not A Bug. Additionally, she has written songs, prose pieces and more than 250 poems, which she aims to publish into a book. Kat has been featured in magazines. She received the Best of 2019 North Waterboro Recognition Award for her work in printing and publishing and has been included in Marquis Who’s Who in America. She has also appeared in The Reader’s Carnival, Ex Libris Maine, Waterboro Reporter, The LifeWrite Project-The Corona Silver Linings Anthology, Author Voices and Smithsonian Institution's Museum on Main Street.

She can be found at https://katmcmann.com/ and on her Word Press blogs, http://askthekat.home.blog and https://katmcmannwriter.wordpress.com/.