Kathleen Hall was born in Detroit and raised in Livonia, a white-flight suburb. This backdrop, and the turbulence of the Sixties, provoked her lifelong activism for human rights, civil rights and women's rights. 

A writer, poet, lawyer, mediator and workplace investigator, Kathleen co-authored the IPPY award-winning nonfiction, The Otherness Factor. If The Moon Had Willow Trees is her first novel. Kathleen lives and writes in Austin, Texas with her husband Loren, Emma Dog, Ms. Ming Cat and Sasha Cat.