Author Bio: brief
Kari Grady Grossman has spent nearly two decades traveling,
writing, and producing documentaries. Her writing has appeared on
Discovery Channel Online, including coverage of a Mount Everest
expedition and the Alaskan Iditarod. After traveling to Cambodia in
2001 to adopt their son, the Grossmans created the Grady Grossman
School. Proceeds from this book will support the school, which now
educates nearly 500 children a year. In 2006, she and her husband traveled to India to adopt their second
child. A book on that country is forthcoming. The author is a 1990 graduate of Syracuse University and
resides in Lander, Wyoming.
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Author Bio: extended
Author Kari Grady Grossman’s life has been anything but planned or ordinary. Born in Buffalo,
N.Y. in 1968, Kari grew up in Arcade, N.Y. After graduating from Syracuse University in 1990 with a
degree in writing for Television, Radio and Film, Kari met her future husband, George Grossman, while
working together as photographers for the Vail ski resort in Colorado. In 1991 the pair traveled over
3,500 miles by bicycle to Alaska. They soon moved to Jackson, Wyoming where they founded the Great
Outdoors Photography Company and married in 1994.
The Grady Grossmans quickly gained a reputation as top-notch wildlife photographers, tracking
wolves and eagles among other creatures. In 1998, after selling their photography company, Kari turned
her focus to writing and was sent to Nome, Alaska to cover the Iditarod for Discovery Channel Online.
In 2002, Discovery sent Kari to the Mount Everest base camp for nine weeks to cover a women’s ascent.
Meanwhile, Kari and her husband had become serious about having children, only to discover
that Mother Nature had other plans. By 2001, the couple had begun an adoption process in Cambodia, a
country that they could hardly place on a map at the time. That soon changed.
Taken by the poverty in the country where their son Grady was born, the couple created a school
in 2001. The Grady Grossman School now educates nearly 500 students through sixth grade. Kari was
compelled to write Bones That Float to tell her story how adopting one child led to adopting a whole
country. Proceeds from that book will go to support the Grady Grossman School.
Now a resident of Lander, Wyo., Kari is at work on a book about
India, the homeland of her second adopted child, daughter Shanti.