Kathryn Colvin

One way or another, Kathryn Colvin has always been writing something weird. She got her start dictating surrealistic and entirely unhinged monster stories to her grandfather “Moon Rock” before she could spell the words herself, later wrote and performed in theatrical adaptations of Tolkien novels, and then wrote and directed her own feature-length retro superhero sci-fi B-movie, The Teenage Mummies from Beyond, shown at an independent movie theater in Portland, Oregon. During her time in college (some years after high school) she majored in English literature, published peer-reviewed articles as an undergrad, and successfully avoided taking any creative writing courses. Now a novelist and an independent researcher, Kathryn’s writing is the fruit of a lifelong passion for storytelling and the strange. Inspired by her interests in the Gothic, the supernatural, romance, Romanticism, folklore, and pop culture—particularly the love lives and influence of the Byronic hero and Elizabethan villain-hero—her academic work includes articles in the journals Brontë Studies and Mythlore, and her debut Victorian Gothic romance novel is Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London.