Kari Pohar

Kari Pohar is a paranormal fiction author who grew up on her family’s ghost stories and later decided to live out her destiny by moving into a house with the occasional ghost visitor of her own. While mostly harmless, these spirits crossed a line when they started hanging around her children as infants—an experience that still haunts her today.

She has ten published short stories in a variety of anthologies. She has two novels under her belt: Chateau Merlot and Cassandra Seer: Psychic on the Run.

She’s been married for 20 years, which suggests a surprising level of stability for someone so preoccupied with ghosts, vampires, and the undead. She submitted her first short story for publication on the morning her mother died—a fun fact that is not fun at all but does explain her fondness for dark humor and the paranormal. She draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry (minus the marrying-a-cousin part). When people can’t remember her name, she tells them it’s Kari—as in Stephen King’s Carrie. This works most of the time, except when it doesn’t.