Kari Kilgore

Kari Kilgore started her first published novel Until Death in Transylvania, Romania, and finished it in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where a rather famous creepy tale about a hotel sparked into life. That’s just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction.

Until Death was included on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel in 2016. It was also a finalist for the Golden Stake Award at the Vampire Arts Festival in 2018.

Her story “What Breaks a Man” was included under Other Distinguished Mystery and Suspense of 2021.

Her stories have appeared in Fiction River Magazine, WMG Publishing's Holiday Spectacular edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Sylvia Magazine, Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem Magazine, and The Uncollected Anthology.

Kari writes first and figures out the story’s genre later. That results in fantasy, science fiction, mystery, romance, contemporary fiction, and everything in between. She lives with her husband author Jason A. Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they’re better off not knowing more about.