Kat Falls grew up in Maryland and received a MFA in screenwriting at Northwestern
University. Now she teaches at NU, where she is continually inspired by her
students' creativity. Kat has had four screenplays optioned by independent
producers and was hired to write a script for Disney Studios based on a pitch. Kat's
leap into prose came by way of a writing exercise. Knowing that her 12-year-old son
loved reading about the ocean, Wild West pioneers, and (of course) the X-Men, she
combined his interests and created the premise for a story that kept her up nights
plotting and world-building. One year later, her sci-fi adventure novel, Dark Life took
1st place in the sci-fi/fantasy category of the 2008 Crested Butte/Sandy writing
contest. Kat lives in Illinois, USA, with her husband, theatre director Robert Falls,
their three children, two cats, two guinea pigs and a snake named Poncho.
