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Kat grew up in the small town of Riverview, Florida, where she spent most of her time 
either drawing or sitting in her “reading tree” with her nose buried in a fantasy novel…except for the hours pretending her back yard was an enchanted forest that could only be reached through the secret passage in her closet… She never could give up on the idea that maybe she really was magic, mistakenly placed in a world not her own…but as the years passed, and no elves or fairies carted her away…she realized she was just going to have to create the life of her fantasies. She shares that life with her husband and two homeschooling kids.
Kat is a graduate of the University of Tampa, Magna Cum Laude, B.S. in Biology. She spent several years teaching, but never in a traditional classroom–everything from Art to Algebra II. Her writing spans the gamut from inspirational personal essays to dark and disturbing fantasy and horror, with over forty short fiction and nonfiction credits to her name.
Contact Info
- kat@katheckenbach.com
- www.katheckenbach.com
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kat-Heckenbach/125084577483
- http://www.splashdownbooks.com/team.html#kat
Portfolio
Print fiction
- “The Artist” in Beyond Centauri (magazine by Sam’s Dot Publishing)
- “The Guitar” in While the Morning Stars Sing (upcoming anthology by ResAliens)
- “Clay’s Fire” in The Four Horsemen: An Anthology of Conquest, War, Famine and Death (anthology by Pill Hill Press)
- Limerick in Vampyr Verse (poetry anthology by Popcorn Press)
For a full list of all of Kat’s short story publications for fiction and non-fiction, as well as illustration credits, visit www.katheckenbach.com.
Finding Angel
AVAILABLE NOW FROM SPLASHDOWN BOOKS
Middle Grade Fantasy
Angel doesn’t remember her magical heritage…but it remembers her.
Magic and science collide when she embarks on a journey to her true home, and to herself.
Angel lives with a loving foster family, but dreams of a land that exists only in the pages of a fantasy novel. Until she meets Gregor, whose magic Talent saves her life and revives lost memories.
She follows Gregor to her homeland…a world unlike any she has imagined, where she travels a path of self-discovery that leads directly to her role in an ancient Prophecy…and to the madman who set her fate in motion.
Aquasynthesis
AVAILABLE NOW FROM SPLASHDOWN BOOKS
Gizile follows her mysterious teacher, Tok, as they look into the ice of an ocean pool to contemplate a series of strange and mystical visions: astonishing tales of technology and transcendence, aliens and elves, space and time, dragons and demons, prophecies and scriptures, humor and horror, the gifted and the enslaved, virtual and supernatural reality, insanity and inspiration.
Dive into the creations of the Splashdown wordsmiths. Visit the edges of story worlds you love already, and taste their delights if you are new to Splashdown’s universe. With short stories from Fred Warren, Caprice Hokstad, P.A. Baines, Adam Graham, R.L. Copple, Travis Perry, Mike Lynch, Keven Newsome, Kat Heckenbach, and Ryan Grabow.
The New Authors Fellowship 