Lauren Kate is the internationally best-selling author:

- Teardrop
- The Fallen novels
- The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove

Her work has been translated into over 30 languages.

She attended the Community of Writers in 2006.

Kate was born on 21 March 1981 in Dayton, Ohio; However, she was raised in Dallas, Texas,
In that same state she pursued a master's degree in fiction from the University of California, Davis.
Kate has stated that experience of the "Old South" in the Atlanta area (she went to college at Emory) inspired her to set Fallen in a Civil War era academy.
Kate married Jason Morphew, a poet and singer-songwriter, they have two children and now live in Los Angeles (CA)

Her writing genre dives into many categories such as:

- Young adult
- Fantasy
- Romance
- Paranormal
- Historical fiction
- Romantic comedy
- Middle-grade fiction
- Screenplay

Kate has stated that her high school did not provide the basis for Sword and Cross in the Fallen series.
In fact, she based the high school setting of The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove on the Dallas high school she attended (Plano senior High School).
The Fallen series employs Kate's many months of theological research. She had gotten the idea for the series from a line in Genesis that she came across whilst studying the Bible in graduate school in California.