Caitlin Rebekah Kiernan (born May 26, 1964) is a writer of horror, science fiction and dark fantasy, born in Ireland and nationalized American. She is the author of ten novels, numerous comics, more than two hundred stories, several short novels, and prints or vignettes. She is also the author of several scientific works in the field of paleontology. Kiernan has earned a reputation as one of the most prominent authors of contemporary macabre fiction. In a review of the novel by this author The Red Tree (2009), the Lovecraftian scholar S. T. Joshi writes: "Kiernan is already among the most characteristic stylists of our field -Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Dunsany, Thomas Ligotti-. After the unfortunate creative break of Ligotti, she has become the main voice of the tale of fear ». In the natural history of the tales of fear, citing the work The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, this author is mentioned as one of the most outstanding of the last generation of writers of the macabre genre in English.