Katherine Kurtz
Author
Virginia, USA
 
Biography:
Katherine (Irene) Kurtz is the author of numerous fantasy novels, most notably the Deryni novels. Although born in America, for the past several years, up until just recently, she has lived in a castle in Ireland. She now lives in Virginia.
She is known to be friends with Anne McCaffrey and frequently converses with her fans online.
She was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. She also was an early member of the Society for Creative Anachronism; in her persona of Bevan Fraser of Stirling she achieved the rank of Countess, ruling the Kingdom of the West as Queen Consort for one reign in the 1970s.
Convention Guest Appearances:
AggieCon 1980 - March 27-30 in College Station, TX
AggieCon 1988 - March 24-27 in College Station, TX
Arisia 2002 - January 18-20 in Boston, MA
Dragon*Con 2008 - August 29 - September 1 in Atlanta, GA
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