- Went to high school in Sasebo, Japan from 1987-1989.
- She played the position of 'Center' in her high school basketball team for two years while living in Sasebo, Japan, playing tournaments in South Korea, Hong Kong, and other parts of Japan. During one tournament the team went to Tokyo Disneyland.
- Her daughter, Hallie Green, also is an actress and plays the elf half-ling character Elliwyk on the webseries Cornwyth (2010) by Kendrick de Lepper.
- She was already 5' 9" when she was age 13.
- Scored an IQ of 132+ and has Eidetic memory.
- Kristin is a resourceful family historian and genealogist tracing her own ancestry back for generations. She is mostly of Swedish, English, Irish, German and Dutch descent, with a small percentage of Welsh. Her deep ancestry includes Scottish and Norwegian, and has deep roots in Viking and Celtic ancestry.
- Creative writing and being an author is in the genes. On her father's side of the family, Kristin has several writers. Her grandmother was also a writer, submitting several short stories to be published in the 1950's. Kristin's Great-Grandmother Helen Josephine Vandegrift was the society page editor for the Akron Beacon Journal in 1920's. During this time she also wrote several plays and stories. In 1922, she won an amateur playwright competition entitling her to enter Harvard Workshop. Instead, she became a writer for Newspaper Enterprise Association in New York City. Among the best of her many stories was an account of a trip to Florida in which she interviewed John D Rockefeller. She returned to Akron in 1924 and became a writer for the Beacon Journal. In May 1925, she married William H. Rigby, a local book store owner. (Contemporary accounts state she was his first customer). She then wrote a syndicated column titled "Demitasse and Mrs Grundy" which included, among other things, references to her family life at 320 Fairy Street. She was also prominent in social and professional women's clubs including the Business Women's Club, Women's City Club and the Ohio Newspaper Women's Association. In July 1926, she was taken to Peoples Hospital, Akron, in a vain effort to save her life.
- Kristin's Grandfather, Ivan A. Peterson DVM, son of Oscar and Minnie, was raised in Forks, Washington, but left his mark in San Marino, Pasadena and Hollywood, California as Veterinarian to several well known and famous animal actors, including the classic Lassie (1954) dogs. He also assisted with the monkeys that went into space, as well as with being a friend of Jane Goodall and sponsored her chimpanzee research. There were several articles published by him, and written about him, including one in Time Magazine in February 1955. His clinic was located at 28 Valley St, Pasadena, California.
- On her mother's side of the family, the Peterson family has been well known for many different reasons. Kristin's Great-Grandmother, Minnie (Nelson) Peterson was the daughter of a Swedish immigrant and pioneer of the logging town, Forks, Washington. Mrs. Peterson's fame as a hardy pioneer and packer for trips into the wilderness of the Olympic Peninsula grew from a lifetime of living off the land and working for over 50 years as a packer in the Olympic National Forest. A campground, the Minnie Peterson Camp and Picnic Area, sits along the Hoh River 9 miles south of Forks. She married Oscar Peterson, Sr. and began her packing career when her husband asked if she would help with the pack horses during hunting season. Although she had 4 small children, Mrs. Peterson took to leading trails of horses through the wilderness for days. Eventually she and Oscar bought a string of pack horses and led trips for the Sierra Club, scientists and other individuals. Mrs. Peterson continued packing and running the couple's ranch after her husband died in 1962. Stories written about Mrs. Peterson in the Seattle Times, The Western Horseman and other publications tell how she often ignored warnings of bears. Once she camped near 2 hikers. The hikers had been told a bear was in the area and they were concerned. Mrs. Peterson offered to sleep by the door and ward off intruders. Later during the night a bear did show. In the story published in Peninsula Magazine, Mrs. Peterson tells how the bear came up to the shelter, then she chased it off until it changed its mind and ran straight at her. Mrs. Peterson said before the bear turned away the second time, she felt it brush her leg. The town of Forks has now been made famous by being the primary location for the novels in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Kristin's Great-Grandfather Oscar Peterson, built the bed & breakfast (now called Miller Tree Inn) which was used as the Edward Cullen house in the movies. Several of the large pines behind the house were planted by her Great-Grandparents.
- Has a flair for mystery and the supernatural, so much so that she often plays characters that are witches or sorceresses of sorts. From 2007-2012, she published five successful YA books about a teenage witch named Alyson Bell and a soul-stealing vampire named Hremm Nevar.
- She is an avid crocheter.
- She is the only child in her immediate family, but her father's side of the family had 13 siblings (of which he was the oldest) and she has numerous cousins scattered across the globe. Coincidentally, her second husband's father also had 13 siblings.
- When Kristin was 11 years old, her favorite movie was Xanadu (1980) and she practiced daily singing like Olivia Newton-John. She enjoyed singing so much that she landed a lead role in her school play performing as Pepper from the musical play Annie (1982).
- In 2009, just three months after the birth of her 3rd child, Kristin contracted a life-threatening disease called Necrotizing Fasciitis. It attacked her leg and her left arm. It was caught in time to prevent fatality; however it was necessary to remove a percentage of muscle in her left arm in order to save her life.
- The setting for her first book novel is a century-old home named the Finch Estate, settled into a fictional country town called Hollow Creek, Virginia. It is designed using several memories of homes Kristin grew up in and her grandparents lived in. Upon publishing her fourth book, Kristin and family purchased a century-old home where they continue to reside, and she writes "among the many ghosts".
- 1985: She came in second place at the Woodbridge Middle School Science Fair for her project on the effects of plants and radiation. Using her mother's Veterinary clinic as her source, she taped bean plant seeds to the wall inside the X-ray room, just outside the room on the door, and across the room. She then studied the effects the radiation had on the growth of the plants. It was discovered due to this experiment that the Veterinary office had a radiation leak outside of the X-ray room, that was soon fixed.
- While working in the Theatre department at Portland State University, she assisted many productions including Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and "Dancing on Checkers Grave", doing behind the scenes work such as building stage scenery, costuming and wardrobe, and assisting with stage makeup for the main actors.
- 2014: Survived cancer after having a laparascopic radical nephrectomy (kidney).
- Loves attending Renaissance Festivals and dressing in costume. Halloween is one of her favorite times of year.
- She has a freckled pattern birthmark similar to the star constellation The Pleiades on her left ankle. Her head-to-toe freckles are part of her trademark, and remind her of her Celtic ancestry.
- She has three nephews and three nieces.
- She is also an accomplished artist with several drawings, with the medium of pencil and colored pencils. She began when she was age 13. Her object of choice to draw were large wild cats such as tigers and leopards, due to the detail of their skin markings. She always drew the eyes first "to give the drawings a soul". Her last drawing was completed in 2008.
- 1989: Received a $500 scholarship from the Smithsonian Institute for University, as reward for induction into the National Honor Society at her high school. She later applied for internship, but did not pursue the move. Instead, she went to University at her father's Alma-mater at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
- Her character's name in Cornwyth (2010) is actually a real name. Temora as a girl's name is a variant of Temira (Hebrew), and the meaning of Temora is "tall". With the 3" black witch boots on, Kristin's character Temora is towering 6'2".
- The spells cast in Cornwyth (2010) are made up of the Elvish language. The most common spells Temora casts are 'Templa Pilin' and 'Runya Yanta'.
- 1992/3: President of her service sorority Epsilon Sigma Alpha at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
- Has also worked as a professional genealogist and palaeographer for the past 30 years.
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