Kitson Jazynka is an award-winning writer and children's author who lives in Washington, DC. Her work appears regularly in National Geographic Kids, American Girl, and Young Rider magazines, as well as the Washington Post's KidsPost. In 2011, she worked with the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Foundation to write a book called The Making of the Memorial, a history of the creation of the memorial to Dr. King on the National Mall. She is the author of DK Life Stories: Florence Nightingale