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Katherine Seligman

Biography

Katherine Seligman

Katherine Seligman is a journalist and author who lives in San Francisco. She won the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for her debut novel, AT THE EDGE OF THE HAIGHT. As a reporter, she’s focused on social issues, from homelessness, mental health and end of life issues to the city’s boom and bust cycles. But she has written about everything from self-appointed graffiti curators, urban coyotes and embryonic sex selection to what her own kids learned growing up in Haight Ashbury.

Katherine Seligman

Books by Katherine Seligman

At the Edge of the Haight
by Katherine Seligman - Fiction

Maddy Donaldo, homeless at 20, lives with her dog and makeshift family in the hidden spaces of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. She thinks she knows how to survive and whom to trust until she accidentally witnesses the murder of a young man. Her world is upended as she has to face not only the killer but also the police and then the victim’s parents. In a desire to save her since they could not save their own son, they are determined to have Maddy reunite with her own lost family. But what makes a family? Is it the people who raised you if they don’t have the skills to look after you? Is it the foster parents whose generosity only lasts until things become more difficult? Or is it the family that Maddy has met in the park, young people who also have nowhere else to go?