Catherine Karp was born and raised in Southern California suburbia. After falling in love with books, movies, and writing during childhood, she graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with degrees in drama and English and worked in publishing. Her debut novel, Gilded, won the Hollywood Film Festival's Book Discovery Award, and her second novel, Voices Airy, was a Historical Fiction Finalist in the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards.
Her latest novel, The Vampire's Wife, recently won a Kay Snow Writing Award and is currently seeking a nice, warm home with the help of her fabulous agent. She's working on a second vampire novel and a young adult revamp of one of her historicals, tentatively titled The Spirit Seller.
Catherine now resides in Oregon and runs the popular Suburban Vampire blog: suburbanvampire.blogspot.com. For additional info, please visit CatherineKarp.com.