Kateline Gresseau was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her family moved to the United States from Haiti in search of a better life with more opportunities. Even though Gresseau is the youngest of four siblings, she has always been the most outspoken. She developed a love of reading and writing after her parents took away her television privileges for seven years. “That punishment became the greatest gift my parents could have given me: the love of reading.”
Ms. Gresseau passed the time by becoming a voracious reader, and wrote several short stories. “Ms. Kruh, my seventh grade teacher, suggested that I become a writer, because she could visualize what I wrote.”
However, Ms. Gresseau’s parents thought her outgoing personality would be better suited to the legal profession, and they began grooming her toward such a career.
Ms. Gresseau graduated from the University of Albany with a Bachelor’s degree in double majors: Political Science and African Studies. Though she remained uncertain about pursuing a law degree, she worked in several prominent law firms in New York City. Ms. Gresseau soon realized that she wanted to have a greater impact on others, and her quest for creative fulfillment continued as she explored several different professions, ultimately having worked over forty different jobs in pursuit of what she seeks.
It wasn’t until she had a conversation with Jason A. Spencer-Edwards about choices that she began writing her first novel, The Journey: Solo. Gresseau stated, “I have not always made the correct choices and it has affected my environment. I want to relay the message that the future is now. Every decision you make can help to improve your life and the lives of those around you.”