Kat Ross

Kat Ross is an American author of epic and historical fantasy, blending elemental magic, steampunk, and gothic influences across a wide catalog of interlinked series. Her Gaslamp Gothic books, including the Dominion Mysteries, follow supernatural investigations set against a Gilded Age backdrop, while her Fourth Element, Fourth Talisman, and Fourth Empire trilogies form a connected saga of elemental magic and airship warfare in an invented Persian-inspired world. Her novel Nightmarked, a nightmare-hunting fantasy, won a Readers' Favorite Gold Medal. She has also written the steampunk trilogy Lingua Magika and the contemporary fantasy Ravencroft Hall books. Ross writes across genres with a consistent focus on immersive, richly researched settings, and maintains an active readership through her website and social media.