As a young girl growing up on the New Jersey shore she spent hours and hours reading at the beach, out on the front porch, and in her bedroom very late at night when she was supposed to be sleeping.

In college Kaitlin took a detour from writing and became a foreign language major, spending her junior year in Spain. And because stories of the past always intrigued her, she also studied history.

Kaitlin now lives in sunny Southern California with her family, where she is busy writing her next novel.