Kathryn Cloward, known professionally as Kathryn the Grape, is a #1 bestselling author, award-winning songwriter, children’s entertainer, educator, and Certified Social Emotional Character Development Instructor. In 2025, she was named Children’s Music Artist of the Year at the Josie Music Awards in Nashville, one of the highest honors recognizing excellence among independent artists.

Through her heart-centered Kathryn the Grape series, Kathryn brings her childhood nickname to life through uplifting books, original songs, videos, and engaging live performances that support children in building confidence, understanding emotions, and making kind, thoughtful choices. Her work weaves together music and storytelling with developmentally aligned themes including kindness, self-love, gratitude, empathy, inclusivity, resilience, responsible decision-making, and joyful connection.

Social-emotional and character development education matters because it shapes how children understand themselves and move through the world. For more than fifteen years, Kathryn has been deeply committed to this work both personally and professionally. As a teaching artist, a certified instructor, and a purpose-driven entrepreneur who has bootstrapped and led multiple companies, she creates meaningful, joyful experiences that help children and the adults listening alongside them build everyday life skills they can feel, remember, and carry forward. When children are given tools to understand their feelings and shine from the inside out, that goodness ripples outward, one child at a time.

Kathryn has written impact songs for organizations supporting children facing cancer, raising rare disease awareness, and empowering teen refugees, including Rady Children’s Hospital Auxiliary, The National MPS Society, and SAY San Diego. She is a Voting Member of the Recording Academy, a multi-time GRAMMY® Awards balloted artist, and the recipient of more than 60 national honors spanning family media excellence and women in business and leadership. Through her work, Kathryn supports what many families are already teaching at home by focusing on the basics of being a good human and creating experiences rooted in connection, care, and purpose.