Kitty Burns Florey

Kitty Burns Florey is a veteran copyeditor and the author of nine novels and a non-fiction book, Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences. An only child born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Florey attended St. John the Baptist Academy from 1st-12th grades, and this parochial school experience would later inform her non-fiction writing. She has a Bachelors degree in English Literature from Boston ... More
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