American writer Kathryn Harrison (b. 1961) was raised in the kinship care of her grandparents from the age of 6.

Harrison was born in Los Angeles, California. Her young parents divorced when Kathryn was 6 months old. At the time, Kathryn and her mother were living with the maternal grandparents and they stayed there until, when Kathyn was 6 years old, her mother left home.

Seeking Rapture (2003) includes numerous meditations on her childhood including that her grandparents raised her to be different to her mother, ie “responsible and studious and steady” (10).