Carol M. Cram is the award-winning author of the Women in the Arts Trilogy (The Towers of Tuscany, A Woman of Note, and The Muse of Fire), the contemporary novel Love Among the Recipes (which received a Publishers Weekly Starred Review), and her forthcoming historical novel The Choir. She also hosts The Art In Fiction Podcast, where she interviews authors who write novels inspired by the arts, and writes a travel blog called Artsy Traveler.

Before becoming a full-time novelist, podcaster, and blogger, Carol authored over sixty bestselling textbooks in computer applications and business communications for Cengage Learning and Houghton Mifflin. She holds an MA in Drama and an MBA and taught for many years on the faculty at Capilano University in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

When she’s not traveling, Carol lives with her husband, artist Gregg Simpson, on Bowen Island, a small community with a year-round population of about 4000 souls. The island is a 20-minute car ferry ride from Vancouver on the west coast of Canada.