Winner of Prize Americana, Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction exploring the complexities of life. Laying the profound beside the mundane, author Katherine L. Holmes creates rich and complicated characters who search for identity, meaning, and purpose within a world often dangerous and sometimes even cruel. Her readers relate to such struggles and find comfort as they face similar challenges of their own. A fiction writer and native of Minnesota, Katherine. L. Holmes holds an M.A. in Writing from the University of Minnesota. She has won The Loft's Children's Literature Prize as well as Prize Americana.