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Phyllis Christine Cast was born on 30 April 1960 in Watseka, Illinois, USA, and grew up being shuttled back-and-forth between Illinois and Oklahoma, which is where she fell in love with Quarter Horses and mythology (at about the same time). After high school she joined the United States Air Force and began public speaking and writing. After her tour in the USAF, she taught high school for 15 years before retiring to write full time. She has been married and divorced three times. She lives in Tul...

Kristin F. Cast (born November 4, 1986) is an American author of young adult fiction. She was born on a U.S. Air Force base in Japan and raised in Oklahoma. In 2007, at age 19, she began co-writing the House of Night vampyre series with her mother, P. C. Cast; the series ran to twelve novels and concluded in 2014. The pair went on to co-create the young adult Sisters of Salem series, beginning with Spells Trouble (2021). Cast has also written the adult romantasy series Towerfall on her own. A #1...