Katherine Russell Rich was an accomplished author with two nonfiction books: Dreaming in Hindi and The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer – and Back. They can both be purchased on Amazon.

After a two-decade long battle with cancer, Kathy Russell Rich died in 2012. One of her close friends, Judy Stone, wrote a piece in remembrance of her on The Moth Blog, which you can read here.

Right before she died, she recorded a segment on This American Life about living with cancer. Listen here.