Kathleen Winters

Kathleen C. Winters is a licensed pilot whose articles have appeared in Woman Pilot, Aviation for Women, and Soaring magazines, and she's been a featured speaker at many venues.

After earning a business degree and working corporate jobs, she embarked upon a writing career, wanting to meld her two loves: aviation and literature. Her first book is Anne Morrow Lindbergh: First Lady of the Air. She's writing a new book with another aviation theme, but a release date has not been scheduled.

Kathleen's interest in flying was sparked at age 6 when she flew on an airliner from Toronto, Canada, her birthplace, to her new home in the States. The thrill of this first flight remained in her memory, and 14 years later she earned a commercial rating in airplanes and a flight instructor’s certificate.

Soaring, her next passion, prompted her to add a glider pilot’s rating. For her glider flights she holds several records and awards, the most recent the Anne Morrow Lindbergh Trophy bestowed by the Women Soaring Pilots Association for her 310-mile flight, in 2007. She flies a Libelle 201B.

Kathleen lives on the bluffs of the Mississippi River near St. Paul, Minnesota, with her husband and two pets, a Siberian Husky and tabby cat.