Katrin Schumann is a successful author, born in Freiburg, Germany, who spent her childhood days in London and Brooklyn. She is known for her contemporary, suspense, and historical fiction books that explore the search for a sense of belonging and how individuals struggle to define themselves based on their circumstances. Schumann has developed a reputation for her profound storytelling, which has been described by some prominent publications as "brilliant" and "gut-wrenching" with a "heart-pounding finish."\n \n Schumann's debut novel, "The Forgotten Hours," is a New York family drama that revolves around a girl accusing her friend's father of sexual assault. The novel received significant recognition and became a bestseller on the Washington Post and Amazon Charts. Her second novel, "This Terrible Beauty," is set in post-war East Germany, with the main themes being loss and redemption. Schumann has also authored several nonfiction books and has been awarded fiction residencies from the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony, The Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Schumann has a rich educational background, having studied languages at Oxford and journalism at Stanford. She has been working as a writing teacher at local prisons in PEN New England and GrubStreet for the past decade. Currently, she is the Program Coordinator of the Key West Literary Seminar and teaches writing at GrubStreet, where she was also an instructor in PEN's Prison Writing program. Schumann is a Boston resident and also spends her winters in Key West.