Kathryn Shay has been a lifelong writer. Though she spent much of her adult life as a teacher of high school English, she published her first book in 1995 for Harlequin Superromance. Since then, she's published 22 Superromances, ten mainstream romances for the Berkley Publishing Group, two novellas and three online reads. One of these novellas was excerpted in COSMOPOLITAN magazine in 2003. She considers one of her great successes her firefighter books: five for Harlequin, and four for Berkley. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two children.