About Me

Katherine Cowley is a mystery author and a writing teacher. Her debut novel, The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet, was nominated for the 2022 Mary Higgins Clark Award. The Mary Bennet spy series also includes The True Confessions of a London Spy (March 2022) and The Lady’s Guide to Death and Deception (September 2022).

Katherine Cowley read Pride and Prejudice for the first time when she was ten years old, and she loved it so much that she reread it a few months later. She loves history, chocolate, traveling, and playing the piano. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan with her husband and three daughters. A number of her short stories have been published, and she teaches writing at Western Michigan University.

Katherine is represented by Stephany Evans of Ayesha Pande Literary.