Carol M. Cram

Carol M. Cram loves the arts, food, travel, and writing novels about people who follow their passions.

Her most recent novel, The Choir (HTF Publishing, 2026), is set in 1890s Yorkshire and tells the story of working-class women who find strength, sisterhood, and redemption through music. Carol's first three award-winning novels of historical fiction — The Towers of Tuscany (Lake Union Publishing, 2014), A Woman of Note (Lake Union Publishing, 2015), and The Muse of Fire (Kindle Press & New Arcadia Publishing, 2018) — feature women in the arts navigating worlds that underestimate them. In Love Among the Recipes (New Arcadia Publishing, 2020), a cookbook author flees a cheating husband to spend six months writing and falling in love in Paris.

Carol is the founder of Art In Fiction, a curated database of 2,500+ novels inspired by the arts, and the host of The Art In Fiction Podcast, where she talks with authors who write novels about music, visual art, theatre, and literature. She also runs Artsy Traveler, an arts-focused travel blog covering museums, concerts, and cultural experiences across Europe and beyond.

Carol authored over sixty college textbooks for Cengage Learning and taught at Capilano University in North Vancouver for over two decades. She holds an MA in Drama from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. She lives with her husband, painter Gregg Simpson, on beautiful Bowen Island near Vancouver, BC.