About the Author

Kathleen Solis is an award-winning, bestselling author based in the United States. She has had a lifelong passion for storytelling. At a young age, she could be found writing and illustrating her own stories, and by eighth grade, she was writing hundreds of pages and working on multiple sci-fi/fantasy manuscripts, and receiving recognition for her writing by instructors and academic institutions alike.

 

In 2015, her very first self-published children's book The Color Thief received The Clodēcott Honor Medal, awarded by the University of Dallas Department of Education for the achievement of writing one of the department's best books in Child and Young Adult Literature.

 

In 2019, Kathleen created an original story in a series of drawings based on official prompts from MerMay, a worldwide drawing challenge for artists and animators. The drawings turned into a story which eventually became The Tale of Capri, which was expanded into a second edition and published in May of 2026 with sequels planned. The book received the Literary Titan Silver Book Award in 2026.

 

Kathleen's primary writing focus is in Young Adult and New Adult fiction. Her work frequently contains elements based on real-life experiences, exploring the deeper parts of what it means to be human and what makes life meaningful through approachable stories and imagery.

 

Notable non-fiction works include her chapter "Thousands of Bad Versions" in the bestselling anthology, The Success Playbook.