KD McCrite loves the common folks. Sometimes dark and serious, sometimes touching and funny, her stories portray everyday people living lives from the depths of their extraordinary souls.

McCrite has three novels listed under Kathaleen Burr and published by Avalon Books: Home is the Heart, 1991; Wintersong, 1991; Rainbow Dreams, 1992, and Ozarks Farmer, Country Preacher: the Life of Paul Wesley Buchanan, High Hill Press, 2008.

Confessions of April Grace: In Front of God and Everybody, Cliques, Hicks, and Ugly Sticks!, and Chocolate Covered Baloney are published by Thomas Nelson.

Eastgate Church Keeps On Singing has been acquired by kNight Romance Publishing and is due for release 7/15/2012 for the Electronic Book edition and 10/15/2012 for the trade paperback edition. She has two women's lit novels listed under Sidney Archer: Redemption and Whited Sepulchres have just been acquired by Mitchell Morris Publishing and are due for release December 2012/January 2013.

She has had short stories published in The Storyteller, Woman's World, and Kansas City Voices as well as several articles published in Ozarks Mountaineer, Ozarks Reader, and Ozarks Magazine.

Her article "The Lyric: Harrison's Historic Theater" appears in the spring 2010 issue of The Ozarks Reader. Her short story, "Chip Chip Hooray" will be in the Jan/Feb/March 2010 issue of The Storyteller. Her short story, "April Grace Has a Change of Heart" is currently on the Amazing Women Rock web site. www.kdmccrite.com

McCrite is a former psychiatric caseworker with a degree in psychology from Drury University. In 1999, she was listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. Before working in the mental health field, she was on staff of two public libraries.