Award-winning,
best-selling author Eileen Dreyer, known as Kathleen Korbel to
her Silhouette readers, has published twenty books for Silhouette
since 1986 and, under her own name, five suspense novels for Harper
Paperbacks.
This spring's With A Vengeance (St Martin's Press),
stars trauma nurse Maggie O'Brien, St. Louis's first female SWAT
medic. Not only does Dreyer have twenty years experience in the
field of medicine, sixteen in trauma nursing, she graduated from
the Tactical EMS School, which makes her particularly qualified
to create the character of Maggie.
Born and raised in Brentwood, Missouri and a product of Catholic
Schools, she lives in St. Louis County with husband Rick and her
two children. She has animals but refuses to subject them to the
glare of the limelight.
Dreyer won her first publishing award in 1987, being named
the best new Contemporary Romance Author by Romantic Times. Since
that time she has also garnered not only five other writing awards
from Romantic Times, but five RITA Awards from Romance Writers
of America, which secures her only the fourth place in the Romance
Writers of America prestigious Hall of Fame. Since extending her
reach to suspense, she has also garnered a coveted Anthony Award
nomination for her last paperback, Bad Medicine. She has
over three million books in print world wide, and has made regular
appearances on the Waldenbook and B.Dalton bestsellers list, and
now the USA Today list.
A frequent speaker at conferences, she maintains membership
in Romance Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers
of America, and, just in case things go wrong, Emergency Nurses
Association and International Association of Forensic Nurses,
for which she is the unofficial mascot.
Eileen is an addicted traveler, having sung in some of the
best Irish pubs in the world, and admits she sees research as
a handy way to salve her insatiable curiosity. She counts film
producers, police detectives and Olympic athletes as some of her
sources and friends. She's also trained in forensic nursing and
death investigation, although she doesn't see herself actively
working in the field, unless this writing thing doesn't pan out.
