KA Simmons is a New Hampshire Historian and a science fiction and fantasy writer. She lives by the sea with her wife, daughter, and three cats: Sophie, Tali, and Siggy. Her favorite authors are Terry Pratchett, Sarah Monette, and Anne McCaffery, and her favorite titles by them are Night Watch, After the Dragon, and The Crystal Singer respectively.

She holds a MA in History & Archives from Keene State College, and is the author of “Drinking, Whoring, & Misbehaving Themselves”: Disorderly Houses, Madams, & Prostitution in 19th Century New Hampshire. When not writing fiction she can be found researching women’s history in various dusty archives around the state and reading pulp novels.