Kathy Friedman studied creative writing at UBC and the University of Guelph. She has been a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the ReLit Award for Short Fiction, and the Writers’ Trust Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Her writing has appeared in publications including Grain, Geist, PRISM international, The New Quarterly, and Canadian Notes & Queries. Her first collection of short stories, All the Shining People, was published to acclaim by House of Anansi in 2022.

A passionate creative writing instructor, Kathy is a professor in Humber Polytechnic's Bachelor of Creative and Professional Writing program. She has also taught writing to diverse adult learners through InkWell Workshops (which she co-founded), Workman Arts, The 519, Progress Place, CAMH, the Toronto Public Library, and the University of Guelph's creative writing certificate program.