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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