About the Author

Kathleen Kent is a New York Times bestselling author and an Edgar Award Nominee for her contemporary crime trilogy, The Dime, The Burn, and The Pledge. Ms. Kent is also the author of three award-winning historical novels, The Heretic’s Daughter (in its 21st printing worldwide) The Traitor’s Wife, and The Outcasts. Her latest novel, Black Wolf, an international spy thriller, was published in 2023 and received glowing reviews in both the US and the UK. She has written short stories and essays for D Magazine, Texas Monthly, and LitHub, and has been published in the crime anthologies Dallas Noir, Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Dark Yonder, and Beneath the Bluebonnets. 

With her screenwriting partner, K. Morrison, she won Best Screenplay, Horror Genre for SULIS ISLE in the Melbourne International Screenplay Awards 2026.

In March 2020 she was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for her contribution to Texas literature.