The Short Version: K. A. Bacon spent a decade working in the tech world, helping build tiny startups through their early stages. There were things she loved, and things she didn't. In fall 2023, she put that career down with two goals in mind: 1) spend time with her kids while they still think she's hilarious, and 2) write dark, enchanting fairy tales with protagonists she can relate to as a (mostly) grown-up person. Twisty tales that grab you by the heart and make your pulse pound, but leave you feeling like a warm hug. K. A. Bacon lives in Reno, Nevada, with her husband, two girls and oversized dog.

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The Longer Version: K. A. Bacon grew up in a constant cycle of shifting and moving. She bounced around the east coast of the United States as a kid, attending seven different schools before college, including a bout of homeschooling where she wandered around the woods behind their house reading dramatic poetry out loud. She's extremely grateful this phase of her life was pre-TikTok. Her constants through everything have always been her family, her music, and her books about magic and space.

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She went on to study at Northwestern University, where she drank an obscene amount of coffee and fell in love with Chicago. After a few years of conducting market research for big corporations, she moved to San Francisco and fell in love two more times. The first time, with her now-husband Tyler, who introduced her to Borderlands and Dragon Age. The second time, with startups.

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K. A. Bacon spent a decade helping build a series of tiny tech companies from their early stages, enamored with the process of creating systems from chaos and untangling thorny problems. Somewhere along the way, she moved to Reno, got a giant fluffy dog, and had two spectacular kids. In the fall of 2023, she decided it was time to take the plunge and feed her inner creative demon. Since then, she's been extremely privileged to live with one foot in the real world and with the other in worlds she makes up in her head.​

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K. A. Bacon has completed two unpublished novels: a whimsical fairy tale with sci-fi elements and a sentient house, and a high fantasy about finding equilibrium between two very distinct worlds. She recently started work on a third novel about a girl raised by ghosts on a cursed island off the coast of Venice.