Before becoming a full-time writer, Kristin McGlothlin worked at the Norton Museum of Art, where she created and taught art classes. She has a BA in Art History, and a BA and MA in English. Her MA thesis was on the author/illustrator Edward Gorey. McGlothlin wrote and made the artwork for the children's picture book Andy's Snowball Story about the contemporary artist Andy Goldsworthy. Drawing with Whitman is her debut middle grade novel. It is the first book in a four-book series titled Sourland Mountain Series. A writer since she was thirteen, only now, like a million years later, has she settled upon it as her career. She lives in Jupiter, Florida.​