Katharine Lura Waitman (born October 24, 1956, in

Palo Alto, California Palo Alto (; Spanish language, Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood tree kno ...

) is an American science fiction writer. She is best known for the

Compton Crook Award The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best English language first novel of the year in the field of science fiction, fantasy, or horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society at their annual science fiction convention, Baltic ...

winning ''The Merro Tree''. Her second book was ''The Divided.''

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* Writers from Palo Alto, California 1956 births Living people American women novelists American science fiction writers American women science fiction and fantasy writers 21st-century American women {{US-sf-writer-stub