Katherine Perkins lives in Ontario, Ohio, with her husband and one extremely skittish cat. She was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, and will defend its cuisine on any field of honor. She was editor of the steampunk/alt-history series Dawn of Steam and the co-author of the YA contemporary fantasy Fair Folk Chronicles and of various short stories and novellae, including for the charity anthologies of Writerpunk Press. When not reading, researching, writing, or editing, she tries to remember what she was supposed to be doing.