The Shippers

Katherine Center is an American author of contemporary fiction. Center was born and raised in Afton Oaks, Houston, Texas. She graduated from St. John's School and from Vassar College. She won the Vassar College Fiction Prize while a student. She received her M.A. in fiction from the University of Houston, where she was the co-editor of the literary fiction magazine, *Gulf Coast*. Center is the author of several books, which she has called "bittersweet comic novels." Her first novel, *The Bright Side of Disaster* (2006), was optioned by Varsity Pictures, and her sixth, *How to Walk Away* (2018), was a New York Times bestseller. Center's 2019 novel *Things You Save in a Fire* was a New York Ti