Kathryn Hore is an Australian writer of speculative and twisting fiction. Her short fiction has been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines, and crosses genres ranging from science fiction to crime to horror to gothic romance. The Stranger is a novel born of growing up watching too many westerns and falling for their enigmatic protagonists with ambiguous morals and dubious agendas.

When not writing, she works in information governance, libraries, records and archives, and lives with her partner and children among the gumtrees on the outskirts of Melbourne.