Kathleen Flinn is an American writer and journalist best known for the 2007 best-selling work, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry (Viking/Penguin). The book was the first to provide an in-depth look at her experience attending and graduating from the famed Paris culinary school Le Cordon Bleu. This book was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in General Non-fiction in 2008. The film rights to the work were purchased by a television division of 20th Century Fox in 2008 and a film version of the book is slated for the Lifetime Network.
Flinn serves as the chair of the Food Writers, Editors & Publishers section for the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). She resides in Seattle with her husband, Michael Klozar.