Kathryn Lee Hamilton is 44 years old LGBTQNBA+ Author and Poet who lives in the South Shore area of Massachusetts near The University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, where she was educated in History and Ethics.

Her father was the Head of Shipping at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, so in her youth, “Katie,” grew up in the basement of the MFA playing among the history and artifacts there. This almost daily childhood experience has influenced her imagination and writing greatly.

This is a page to fund my writing and particularly the amount I need to pay for my side of the scholarship and supplies for the advanced writing Course, "Putting Our Grandmothers on the Page: Poetry, Prose, and Persona With Kelly Dumar" If you could help one of America starving Poets and Authors please do. You can look at the course here: https://tlanetwork.org/event-6200847?mc_ci...

For more information on me, please see my Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-lee-ha...

My two grandmothers changed my life and yet, they were not a big enough part of it. This class really means the world to me and I am asking your help in taking it nd being an awesome student.

I'm physically disabled and I live on only social security disability in Massachusetts also known as taxachussetes and even with this scholarship, the class, some supplies and a few good books on writing are pretty expensive not mention that I will probably be printing a lot and that is not free either.

I could really use some help. Ans to be honest, writing is about the only thing that has gone right in a really hard year. I have managed to get eleven submissions accepted in this my first year at attempting to be published at all, mostly poetry, but several short stories. That is not nothing for sure.

I believe so deeply in the values of generational writing, and both my grandmothers were dear to me. Through a personal family matter, I never knew one very well which is frankly a tragedy. This class is a once in a lifetime chance to get to know her really for the first time in any deep and connected way, through pictures and accounts from my aunts, her daughtes, and I really want to do that. Her name was Marge Hamilton and I called her Nanny. She was my father's mother.

My other grandmother, Francis Haage, lived with us growing up and she practically raised me. I loved her in a special way that I will never love anyone in again, or be loved again, and many of the values I carry today, as well as my ease with seniors is from my experience with "Grama," as I called my mother's mother. But she was a woman of mystery about her past, I am dying to delve more deeply into her story through a box of photos I found and to put what I know about her on paper.

I hate to rush anyone for money in this tough economy but the class begins on the 15th of October so the money must be pledged by then! Thank you for looking! If you can't pledge,

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ALL GIVERS WILL BE GIFTED A PERSONALLY DEDICATED HAIKU IN THEIR HONOR