NANCY KILPATRICK was born and grew up in Philadelphia. Before emigrating to Canada in 1970, she lived for a year in San Francisco and another year-and-a-half in Chicago. She is a full-time writer of dark fiction in both short and long forms, and non-fiction articles for magazines and newspapers. Married and divorced twice, she currently lives in Montréal, Québec, with her long-term companion, photographer Hugues Leblanc, and a black cat named Bella.

Known as Canada's "Queen of Vampire Fiction", the undead comprise a large amount of her repertoire, but are certainly not all she writes about. Zombies, ghosts and serial killers have also figured prominently in her work.

She fondly recalls watching Bela Lugosi as Dracula, and Gloria Holden as his vampiric daughter, on the LATE LATE SHOW, hosted by Philadelphia cool-ghoul John Zacherle. She adores the supernatural, but is also not opposed to "reality horror", and loves writing and editing equally. With Hugues, she travels the world in search of cemeteries, ossuaries, mummies and danse macabre artwork.

She has collaborated with a number of writers and editors, including Don Bassingthwaite, Thomas Roche and Nancy Holder.

In her role as a teacher of creative writing, Nancy Kilpatrick held a series of workshops at World Horror Convention 2007 featuring a number of professional guests.