Kate Jarvik Birch
Kate Jarvik Birch is an American author of YA fantasy novels. She writes the Perfected series. Kate has loved writing ever since she was little. She wrote her first novel when she was in the fourth grade, and the protagonist may have shared a similarity with herself. Since growing up, her essays and stories have appeared in Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing , Saint Ann’s Review , Scissors and Spackle and Indiana Review . Kate studied painting and drawing at the University of Utah and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in 2005. Her paintings have appeared in movies and TV shows like Glee and 21 Jump Street. Kate lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband and their three children.