Redeemed (Cast) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1960
• Raised—the states of Oklahoma and Illinois, USA
• Education—
• Awards—
• Currently—lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma


Phyllis Christine Cast  is an American romance/fantasy author, best known for the House of Night series she writes with her daughter Kristin Cast.

On her own, she has written the Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series, beginning with her first book, Goddess by Mistake (2001). The book won the Prism, Holt Medallion, and Laurel Wreath awards, and was a finalist for the National Readers' Choice Award. Her subsequent books have won a variety of prizes.

In 2005, she and her daughter began co-writing the House of Night series. In the wake of the current popularity of vampire fiction led by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, the Casts' books have enjoyed substantial and increasing critical and commercial success. In March 2009, the fifth book in their series, Hunted, opened as #1 on the best-seller lists of USA Today and Wall Street Journal.

According to the author, the concept for the House of Night novels came from her agent, who suggested the idea of a vampire finishing school. The books take place in an alternative universe version of Tulsa, Oklahoma, inhabited by both humans and "vampyres." (Cast uses this alternative spelling in the books, explaining it as a choice she made "just 'cause I like the way it looks.) The protagonist, Zoey Redbird, age 16, is "marked" as a "fledgling" and moves to the "House of Night" school to undergo her transformation.

Personal information
Born in Watseka, Illinois, P.C. Cast lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she taught high school English. She has been married and divorced three times. In June 2010, Cast wrote about her marriages and her current personal relationship with Seoras Wallace, a Scottish historian and chieftain of Clan Wallace, whom she met while researching her novel The Avenger. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 9/11/2014.)