Carol M. Cram is the author of four novels including her most recent novel "Love Among the Recipes" and three novels of historical literary fiction. Her first novel, The Towers of Tuscany (Lake Union Publishing, 2014) and her second novel, A Woman of Note (Lake Union Publishing, 2015) were both designated Editor’s Choice by the Historical Novel Society in the UK. A Woman of Note won First in Category for the Goethe award and The Towers of Tuscany won the Grand Prize Chaucer Award for best historical novel pre-1750 (Chanticleer Book Awards). The Muse of Fire, which completes Carol’s themed trilogy about women in the arts, was awarded the Bronze medal for Best Historical Fiction from the Independent Publishers’ Awards and First in Category for the Goethe Awards. Love Among the Recipes recently won a Bronze in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards and received a Publishers' Weekly starred review.

Carol is also the author of Pastel & Pen: Travels in Europe, a collection of vignettes inspired by her travels and by the pastel drawings created by her husband Gregg Simpson.

Carol runs two websites: Artsy Traveler (www.artsytraveler.com) to showcase arts-inspired travel destinations in Europe and Art In Fiction (www.artinfiction.com), a website listing over 1,500 authors of novels inspired by the arts. Listen to Carol interview authors and talk about writing on the Art In Fiction Podcast available wherever you get your podcasts.

In a parallel life, Carol is the author of bestselling college textbooks in computer applications and communications for a major US publisher (Cengage Learning) and was on faculty at Capilano University in North Vancouver for two over decades. Carol holds an MA in Drama from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. She lives with her husband, painter Gregg Simpson, on beautiful Bowen Island near Vancouver, BC, where she also teaches Nia, a holistic dance/fitness practice. Their daughter, Julia Simpson, is a crochet artist and “crochetpreneur.”