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At the Friends of the Roswell Library’s 40th anniversary celebration, Kinley shares insights into Roswell, Georgia’s historic cotton and woolen mills, and the research behind her novel, The Lost Women of Mill Street.

Kinley speaking at Friends of the Roswell Library event
Friends of the Roswell Library event attendees

Kinley visits Rodman Public Library as part of the 2023 Fogle Author Series to discuss Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury, her family history that inspired the story, and the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.


Kinley joins 100 other authors and illustrators at the 35th annual Buckeye Book Fair in Wooster, Ohio on November 5, 2022.


SISTERS OF THE SWEETWATER FURY wins adult fiction category in the 2022 U.S. Selfies Awards, presented by Publishers Weekly and BookBrunch (read more)


At the virtual 2022 Ohioana Book Festival, Kinley joins authors Emilia Rosa, Tracy Lawson, and Barbara Kussow in a panel discussion, “Journey to the Past: Historical Fiction,” moderated by Hagan Faye Whiteleather. (video)


SISTERS OF THE SWEETWATER FURY is named a finalist in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards (view finalists)