C.S. Poe is an author of gay mystery, romance, and speculative fiction. She is a winner of the FAPA, Next Generation, and e-Lit book awards, as well as a finalist of the Lambda Literary and EPIC awards.She resides in New York City, but has also called Key West and Ibaraki, Japan, home. She's a Gilded Age New York historian, loves Romanticism artwork, the films of Buster Keaton, coffee in the morning and whiskey in the evening, true crime, and cats. She's rescued two cats-Milo and Kasper do their best to distract her from work on a daily basis.C.S. is an alumna of the School of Visual Arts.Her debut novel, The Mystery of Nevermore, was published 2016.