Katherine Arnoldi (born 1951 in Canton, Ohio)[2][3] is an American writer and graphic novelist. Arnoldi is perhaps best known for her graphic novel, The Amazing “True” Story of a Teenage Single Mom (Hyperion: 1998).[4][5] In 1999 "The Amazing “True” Story of a Teenage Single Mom was cited as a top book of the year by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association.[6] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 452 libraries [7]

Arnoldi's 2007 collection of stories All Things Are Labor won the Juniper prize and was then published by the University of Massachusetts Press in the series of such honored works therein.[8] She has also been a recipient of the Hensfield Transatlantic fiction award, a Jerome Lowell DeJur award in fiction from the City College of New York and two New York Foundation for the Arts awards.[9][10] In 2008–2009 she was a Fulbright scholar in Paraguay.[11] She has been a fellow at the Blue Mountain Center and the MacDowell Colony.[12][13] Currently Arnoldi is an adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.[14]

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