Kathleen Kaufman is a tenured English teacher in a Los Angeles inner city school. She has spent her life in education and passionately focused on fiction and literature. With formal training in various forms of literature, Ms. Kaufman is intimate both with the process of writing and also with storytelling techniques.

She has always been a book worm and embraces fiction's ability to educate, often using it to teach history and culture to her students. The social commentary interwoven in the complex and elegant storytelling of The Tree Museum is testament to her belief in the power of fiction and shines with a wit and irony that both captures imagination while permeating a greater social consciousness.