Kathy Egan was hired as a computer programmer upon graduating from Boston College, beginning her 38-year career in healthcare information technology. She earned her MBA from the University of New Haven. From early in her career to her recent retirement from executive leadership, she was often the only female at the table.

The daughter of a union leader father and a homemaker mother, she grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C. She currently lives with her husband Bill, an architect, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the proud mother of two sons and a daughter-in-law.

Kathy began writing her personal stories in 2016 as part of a journey with a group of spiritual seekers. Shortly after, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and several impactful skin cancers that shifted her way of being in the world. Feeling compelled to examine her life choices—to inquire into what she might have lost and gained through all her years of struggling to juggle it all—Kathy got serious about writing her first book, The Huge Life of an Ordinary Wonder Woman.

A playoff-stretch sports fan, Kathy also enjoys yoga, walking, and reading. She aspires to cook fearlessly.