Kate Klimo was born in New York City but the family moved, when she was six weeks old, to Mount Vernon, Iowa where she spent my first three years splashing in creeks, attending the State Fair and playing hideandseek in the corn fields. When she moved back east, she lived in a little town of Sea Cliff with Victorian charm, where she messed around with small boats, read fantasy books and searched desperately for her own magical portal. She spent most of her adult years raising three sons, working fulltime as a children's book publisher, and riding horses. But never once, since the fourth grade, has there a time when she wasn't exploring what is, for her, the ultimate magical portal: writing. Whether in books of fantasy for children like theDragon Keepers (what if geodes were really dragon eggs?), historical fiction like theDog Diaries (what if you could see the world through a dog's eyes?) or works of adult fiction likeLove Love Me Do (what if two friends kept up a fifty year friendship forged during the magical era of the Beatles?) Klimo's work as a writer has been to ponder and explore the What Ifs? of this and other worlds.
