Right now, Kathleen McFall lives in Portland, Oregon, but she grew up in the heart of Washington, D.C.

She worked as a geologist and later, a journalist, publishing hundreds of articles about energy, natural resources and the like. More recently, she's worked as a communications professional in the academic world where she writes about science, policy and the like. She received a fellowship for fiction writing from Oregon Literary Arts.

She is an obsessive reader and writer. Stuff Kathleen likes: lava, Russian literature, neo-anarchy, dry martinis and all oceans. Stuff she hates: intermissions, Halloween corn mazes and high-speed vehicular sandwiches. And the Muppets. All of them.

The Cowboy and Vampire is Kathleen's first novel, and the first book in the Cowboy and Vampire Thriller series. She co-wrote the book with Clark Hays, her writing and life partner.