Katie Alender

Katie Alender is a young adult fantasy author that is best known for the “Bad Girls Don’t Die” series of novels. She was brought up In South Florida and studied Communication Arts at the Palm Beach County School of the Arts. Once she graduated from high school, she went to Florida State University Film School where she studied film. She then moved to LA where she got a job working in TV production and development for several years. Some of her work included several years producing “Animal Planet” shows. Her first brush with publishing was when she was in high school and had “So You Want to Live on Mars” an article that she wrote published. She published “Bad Girls Don’t Die” her debut novel and the first in the Bad Girls “Don’t Die” series in 2009. She is a member of the International Thriller Writers and the Society of Children’s Book Illustrators and Book Writers. When she is not writing her novels she can be found hanging out with her family, reading, playing board games, gardening, cooking and sewing.