Katy Harper

Katy Harper was born Katrina Louise Harper to parents Paul Charles Harper and Linda Lee Harper (Kohr) on December 23, 1971 in Bloomington, Indiana. She enjoyed a normal childhood with her younger brother Benjamin with a close young family of aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents.Katy spent most of her childhood in and around Monroeville, Pennsylvania where she developed a deep love for any performing arts event, and started playing violin, singing daily, performing in school musicals, and dreaming of becoming the triple threat. Katy attended Gateway Senior High School until the middle of 11th grade, when she and her family moved due to her father's transfer to the small southern town of Aiken, South Carolina.Katy attended Indiana University for her Bachelors in Education and moved out to an area outside Toadlena, New Mexico to teach at a boarding school on the Navajo Indian Reservation. From there, she moved back east and found herself landing at College Station, Texas to earn a Masters of Business Administration.Upon graduation, she hitched her Cadillac Sedan deVille to the back of a U-haul, and with her Golden Retriever Bailey, she drove to Atlanta, GA to start her career. After several years of working in marketing in corporations, the small voice inside kept telling her that it was time to start a family, so she did.After a serious medical complication that compromised both her and her daughter's lives, Katy dedicated herself to making sure she would live her life to the fullest and with no regrets and to honor all the gifts and talents she was sent here to share.Her overflowing love for Sophie inspired many songs she sang to her daily, which then transformed into young children's board book manuscripts. Shortly thereafter, Katy set out to become the performing artist and actress she knew she was sent here to be in order to honor her gifts and talents. A list of her work can be reviewed on her website.During this immersion of story-telling, Katy became inspired to write a haiku a day and embraced this inspiration. Many of the haikus were written every morning upon waking, in the stillness between opening her eyes and rejoining the world of movement. Ms. Harper lives in Atlanta, GA with her daughter Sophie and their loyal Great Pyrenees Rescue, Theia. Show less «