Ewell, Katherine: - nKatherine Ewell wrote Dear Killer when she was seventeen years old. She was one of fifty finalists out of 5,000 entries in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest and has attended the invitational Iowa Young Writers Studio. In addition, she has the distinction of being named a California Arts Scholar and has been awarded the California Governors Medallion for artistically talented youth. Dear Killer is her first novel.n