Alma Katsu’s books have been nominated and won multiple prestigious awards including the Stoker, Goodreads Readers Choice, International Thriller Writers, Locus Magazine, the Western Heritage Awards, Spain’s Celsius 232 festival, and appeared on numerous Best Books lists including NPR, the Observer, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Goodreads, and Amazon.
She has written to spy novels (RED WIDOW and RED LONDON), the logical marriage of her love of storytelling with her 30+ year career in intelligence. She also writes novels that combine historical fiction with supernatural and horror elements. THE HUNGER (2018), a reimagining of the story of the Donner Party, was named one of NPR’s 100 favorite horror stories, was on numerous Best Books of the Year lists, and continues to be honored as a new classic in horror. Her first book, THE TAKER (2011), was named one of the top ten debut novels of 2011 by Booklist.
Ms. Katsu is also a contributor to the Washington Post Book World, where she reviews thrillers. She has relocated from the Washington, DC area to the mountains of West Virginia, where she lives with her musician husband Bruce and their two dogs, Nick and Ash. (Photo credit: Patrick Milliken)
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Ms. Katsu is available to advise on intelligence matters. With over 30 years’ experience as an intelligence professional at CIA and NSA, she has a broad understanding of how the Intelligence Community supports policymakers and the military. She has been a senior-level analyst in three intelligence disciplines and was a National Intelligence Officer. Additionally, the last third of her career was spent in research and technology, and at RAND, she was a technology futurist, advising the U.S. government and private industry on emerging technologies.
Ms. Katsu has appeared on OutFront with Erin Burnett, In the Room with Peter Bergen, has been a speaker at Valerie Plame’s Spies, Lies, and Nukes conferences, and was a featured expert on the Great Courses/Wondrium’s The Secret World of Espionage. She’s also spoken at MIT’s EmTech (Emerging Technology) conference.