The former managing editor at Covenant Communications, Kathryn Jenkins Oveson is the author or co-author of more than nine dozen published books, including the bestselling Butch Cassidy and Other Mormon Outlaws of the Old West. With more than forty years of professional experience in corporate and internal communications, public relations, media relations, marketing communications, and publications management, she has been press secretary for a United States Congressman; vice-president of a Salt Lake City publishing company; manager of strategic communications for Novell, Inc.; director of public relations at a private college in Salt Lake City; general and book editor at a university press; and has held communications management positions at a variety of national and international corporations.

Former president-elect of the Association of Utah Publishers, she was also on the board of directors of the Mental Health Association of Utah County and the Constitutional Principles Policy Council. She wrote an award-winning book-length poetry manuscript recognized by the governor of Utah. A former member of Sigma Delta Chi, she was named an Outstanding Young Woman of America.

Her interests include reading, writing, cooking, traveling, and doing family history. She has met five presidents of the United States, sailed up the Nile River, prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, eaten tempura in Tokyo, and received a dozen long-stemmed red roses from a stranger on the street in Athens.

In her blended family, she is the mother of nine and the grandmother of six.