Katherine Nader, born in Wichita, Kansas, arrived in Canada in 2004 after living in Lebanon for seven years. At seventeen, Katherine wrote her first novel, The Deadly Mark, published shortly after studying Shakespeare at Oxford in the summer of 2012. While The Foragers certainly differs from the historical romance genre of The Deadly Mark, it was written for an English creative writing course at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). Katherine is currently finishing her major in Biology, and minors in English and Professional Writing at UTM and is set to graduate in June 2015.