Kathleen Palm

Kathleen Palm wanted to be a ballerina (but dancing was hard), then a marine biologist (but science was hard), then an illustrator and got a degree in art (which was cool). But about twenty years ago, she decided to become a writer and made words her art (which was hard, but she didn’t care). She began writing novels, starting in young adult fantasy, but finding her true voice and style when horror dragged her into shadowed corners and demanded that she write creepy tales for fabulous middle graders. She also writes disturbing short stories for fun, digging into the scary places of emotion.

Several of her stories have been published here and there, including: “My Abby” in the anthology Blackberry Blood, "The Door to Other Places" in A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales, “Smile” (episode 572) and “Freckles” (episode 617) on the Tales to Terrify podcast, “Shadow of Me” appears in the middle grade anthology The Big Book of Things that Go Bump in the Night, and “When the Crows Speak” in Dark Dead Things: Issue 2. She loves scary movies, creepy books, watching people play horror video games, and chocolate cake. With her husband, two college kids, four cats and two dogs, she lives in an old (sadly not haunted) house in rural Indiana where she resists the urge to run through the possibly demon-infested cornfields. If you find her out in the world, say hi, but remember, she’s a little light, a little dark, and a lot weird.