Katharine Lura Waitman (born October 24, 1956, in

Palo Alto, California Palo Alto ( ; Spanish language, Spanish for ) is a charter city in northwestern Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. Th ...

) is an American science fiction writer. She is best known for the

Compton Crook Award The Compton Crook Award is presented by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) to the year's best English language debut novel in the science fiction, fantasy, or horror genres, as voted by its members. BSFS confers the award at their annua ...

winning ''The Merro Tree''. Her second book was ''The Divided.''

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* Writers from Palo Alto, California 1956 births Living people American women novelists American science fiction writers American women science fiction and fantasy writers 21st-century American women {{US-sf-writer-stub