Katie Shands is a Southern writer born just east of the Smoky Mountains in Johnson City, Tennessee. She now makes her home in Franklin, south of Nashville, with her husband and four children.
Her writing career began in broadcast journalism when she landed a producing job at WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, but her true dream was to become a novelist. After the birth of her first child, she transitioned to fiction writing and completed her first novel Finding Franklin. The book was published in 2018 and won the Janice Keck Literary Award.
Katie loves to write stories set in Southern small towns where the pace is slower, life feels simpler, and the tea is sweeter. Her fiction is centered around God and the truth of His love.
​She is currently at work on her second novel.
