KATHIE GIORGIO lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with her husband, mystery writer Michael Giorgio, their daughter, Olivia, and an even number of beagles and cats. Kathie’s three older children live close by. She is the director and founder of AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop, an international creative writing studio that offers online and onsite support, encouragement, and education for writers of every genre and ability. She holds her BA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and her MFA in Fiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies. When she is not writing or teaching, she is painting. The Home For Wayward Clocks is her first published novel.

Kathie Giorgio’s The Home for Wayward Clocks is, as one would expect, intricately obsessed by time, and the ticking of memory and the revelation of secret tales give this distinctive novel its special power.

—Philip Graham

Kathie Giorgio has crafted a unique and believable tale about loss, love and learning how to live. A simple clock will never look the same once you finish this novel.

—Kris Radish

The Home for Wayward Clocks is constructed with the same degree of intricacy and care as the timepieces contained within the novel’s depths. Giorgio portrays misfits with a sympathy few other writers can. Her first novel is a triumph that can stand alongside such classics as Carson McCullers’ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, as an homage to those who would otherwise go unnoticed.

—Shaindel Beers

Rivet by click, pin by hammer, nut by verge, Kathie Giorgio has constructed a cuckoo clock of a novel complete with wild chimes, ominously swinging pendulums, and darkly mirrored interiors. Minute by minute, turn by turn, her finely tuned prose makes our hearts strike midnight.

—Abby Frucht