Kathryn Miller Haines is an actor, mystery writer, and award-winning playwright. She grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and received her BA in English and Theatre from Trinity University in San Antonio and her MFA in English from the University of Pittsburgh. She's a member of the Mary Roberts Rinehart Chapter of Sisters in Crime and has been a board member of the New York chapter of Mystery Writers of America. In addition to writing the Rosie Winter mystery series for HarperCollins, she's also writing a young adult mystery series for Roaring Brook Press, a division of MacMillan, the first of which, The Girl is Murder, was nominated for 2012 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel. In 2017 Simon and Schuster's PocketStar Books will be publishing her first standalone thriller, The Girl from Yesterday.

Education

• B.A., Trinity University

• M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh

Publications

• The Girl from Yesterday. New York: Simon and Schuster Pocketstar Books, 2017.

• The Girl is Trouble. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2012.

• The Girl is Murder. Roaring Brook Press, 2011.

• When Winter Returns. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.

• Winter in June. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

• The Winter of Her Discontent. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

• The War Against Miss Winter. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

Awards

• Nominated for the 2012 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery Novel