Katie Hart Smith, Registered Nurse, Author & Artist

Katie Hart Smith is a Registered Nurse for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, an artist, and a published author for nearly 30 years. Smith is an active leader in her community and sought out speaker on a local and national level. She enjoys speaking at literary festivals, libraries, book clubs, and community and civic organizations on a variety of topics. Born in 1964 in San Diego, CA, Smith had the opportunity to live all over the United States as a young girl. It wasn’t until 1976 that her family moved to Atlanta, GA where she has called home ever since. Smith loved writing and drawing as a child, creating her own story and picture books at a very early age. As a young adult, she pursued a nursing career and in 1987 obtained a B.S. in Nursing from Georgia State University. In 2002, she received a MBA from Troy State University. Throughout her professional career, Smith continued to write, illustrate, and lecture for the medical community and even served as a guest speaker at Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing for ten years. In 1995, Smith published, “In the Face of Disaster: Personal Reflections” in the Orthopedic Nursing Journal. The article recounted Smith’s work with the Red Cross to lead a group of volunteers from Atlanta to assist with the Flint River Flood recovery efforts. During the 4-hour commute home on a city commuter bus, Smith wrote on scratch pieces of paper to journal the day’s events.