^ "The Big Books of BEA 2011: Adult Titles". ^ "BEA Show Daily 2011: At Gallery- A One-Woman Show". The Deep was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel and a finalist for the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel. The second novel, The Reckoning, was nominated for several year-end awards including Goodreads Readers Choice Award for best paranormal fantasy and RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice Award for best paranormal romance. The Taker was named one of the ten best debut novels of 2011 by Booklist magazine, the publication of the American Library Association. "Pipefitter's Union", in anthology Enhanced Gravity, Paycock Press ( ISBN 0931181208). "The Devil's Scribe", Gallery Books, 2012 (ASIN B006VFZPNU). "The Marriage Price", 2012 (ASIN B00B0QITYC). "The Witch Sisters," 2013 (ASIN B008N1YHPM). She lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband, musician Bruce Katsu. ĭescribed as a literary take on the Faustian bargain, The Taker Trilogy tells the story of a young woman who has been given eternal life but comes to see this condition as a punishment for evil acts she perpetrated in life and is now condemned to revisit until the end of time. It received praise from outlets such as Booklist and The Washington Post and was recognized as one of the ten best debut novels of the year by the American Library Association. She published her first novel, The Taker, in 2011 through Gallery Books. Katsu's writing has received praise for its quality and ability to create authentic and realistic settings. She is also an alumna of the Squaw Valley writers workshops. She attended Brandeis University (BA in literature and writing, 1981) where she studied with novelist John Irving and children's book author Margaret Rey, and the Johns Hopkins University (MA in Fiction, 2004). She spent the majority of her youth living near Concord, Massachusetts, to which she attributes her interest in the early American history featured in her novels. Katsu was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, the daughter of an American-born father and a Japanese-born mother. She previously worked as a senior policy analyst for the RAND Corporation. Katsu has also had a 29-year career in the US federal government working in a number of positions dealing with intelligence and foreign policy, with an emphasis on technology issues. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages, and has been published in the United Kingdom, Brazil, Spain and Italy. 
Paranormal romance, historical fiction, Gothic fiction, dark fantasyĪlma Katsu (born 1959) is an American writer of adult fiction.
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