About The Author

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K.V. Taylor is an avid reader and writer of urban fantasy and dark speculative fiction, even though the only degree she holds in is in the history of art. (Or, possibly, because the only degree she holds is in the history of art.) Originally from the Appalachian foothills of West Virginia, she currently lives in the D.C. Metro Area with her husband and mutant cat. In her spare time she enjoys comic books, Himalayan Buddhist art, loud music, her Epiphone, and Black Bush. Her short fiction can be found on the site, and her first novel, Scripped, is forthcoming from Belfire Press in May 2011. She also collects The Red Penny Papers in her office– aka the dining room.

Her favorite authors include John Steinbeck, Neil Gaiman, Meghan Brunner, Kurt Vonnegut, William Makepeace Thackeray, Frank Herbert, George R.R. Martin, James Joyce, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Warren Ellis, Wendy Pini, Alan Moore, Robert Louis Stevenson, and naturally, Bram Stoker. She claims that her favorite book is “Le Morte D’Arthur” by Sir Thomas Malory, and has a general penchant for Arthurian Romance.