Cate Tiernan

Cate Tiernan is the pseudonym of Gabrielle Charbonnet, an American writer of young adult paranormal and fantasy novels. She is best known for the “Sweep” series of novels that follow the magical adventures of a set of high school students, and particularly that of the lead Morgan Rowlands. She currently has more than thirty titles spread over the” Immortal Beloved”, “Balefire” and “Sweep” series. Tiernan was born in 1961 New Orleans, one of the most exotic and rich cultures in the American South that had a profound influence on her life and later writing. While children in other American cities sold lemonade on their front yards, Tiernan and her fellow New Orleans kids made wax dolls of their enemies and sold voodoo dolls. Despite the constant humidity and humidity she found the city beautiful, particularly its acceptance of colorful and eccentric behavior and the air of indolence. She attended college in New York moved back home to New Orleans then back to New York, where she had got a job in publishing. It was while she was working in New York that she wrote her first novel, a children’s books that she published in 1990. She found life in Manhattan incredible even though she earned very little money. There were so many interesting people to interact with and watch and so much to see and do, though after a while the frenetic energy started wearing her down. Eight years after moving to New York where she had helped edit L.J. Smith’s blockbuster title “The Secret Circle”, she moved back to New Orleans with her husband.