Katherine Ramsland

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Katherine Ramsland has written a dozen books and numerous articles and short stories. In the past year she has been editing Vampyre Magazine. After publishing two books in psychology, <em>Engaging the Immediate </em>and <em>The Art of Learning</em>, she wrote <em>Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice.</em> At the same time she had a cover story in <em>Psychology Today</em> on our culture's fascination with vampires. She followed the biography with several guide books to Anne Rice's fictional worlds including <em>The Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles</em> and <em>The Anne Rice Reader.</em> Her last book before <em>Piercing the Darkness</em> was a biography of Dean Koontz called <em>Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography</em>. She has also written for <em>The New York Times Book Review, The Writer, The Horror Show, The Newark Star Ledger, The Trenton Times,</em> and <em>Publishers Weekly.</em> Ramsland has a master's degree in clinical psychology and a Ph.D. in philosophy. She has been a professor at Rutgers University, a therapist, and a psycho-educator specializing in the psyche's shadow side, and is currently at work on another master's degree--this one in forensic psychology. She lives in Princeton, NJ.