Tara K. Harper

Tara K Harper is a fantasy fiction author that is best known for the “Wolfwalker” series of novels. Harper has been a professional writer since she was a seventeen-year-old. She was a ghostwriter of dissertations and theses in high school. After college, she was briefly an editor, journalist, teacher of editing and writing and also worked as an Artist in Residence. On the side, she authored her first several fantasy and science fiction titles. At the time, nothing came of her manuscripts as she did not think she was good enough to publish as it was something that other people did. It was not until a friend put her under a lot of pressure that she finally decided to find an agent and write a query letter. The next thing she knew, she was signed onto a major publishing house and a few months later she published “Wolfwalker,” the novel that would go on to become a bestseller and make her name in the science fiction and fantasy world. She believes she had the right combination of the right protagonist, the right story, and a lot of luck and providence to get everything just right when she did. Since 1990, she has penned more than ten science fiction novels with several of these becoming national bestsellers. “Cat Scratch Fever,” the first of the “Cat Scratch” series of novels made the shortlist for the Oregon Book awards. Tara is a member of the Author’s Guild.