Kim Vandervort began writing at the age of eleven as an outlet for her overactive imagination.  Since then, she has published a number of short stories, and studied with Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, Debra Doyle, Steven Gould, James Macdonald, Laura J. Mixon, and Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden at the 2007 Viable Paradise XI writer’s workshop.

She lives with her husband Rev and their two girls in Southern California.  When not writing, she teaches English Composition at California State University, Fullerton, where she earned a Master’s degree in Medieval Literature in 1999.