SFF Author: Katherine Howe

Katherine Howe was born in Houston, Texas, and holds degrees in art history and philosophy from Columbia and in American and New England Studies from Boston University. She is the author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, which debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, and which has been translated into twenty-five languages. In 2012 she hosted the Expedition Week special “Salem: Unmasking the Devil” on the National Geographic Channel. Her new novel, a historical thriller set in Boston in the aftermath of the Titanic sinking entitled The House of Velvet and Glass, was released in the US in April 2012, and was a USA Today and New York Times e-book bestseller. She lives in upstate New York with her family, where she teaches historical fiction at Cornell while working on her next novel. In her free time she tries to preserve her garden from the groundhog under the porch stairs, and enjoys roaming the woods, reading books, and sailing.