Ian Kirkpatrick is a speculative and dark comedy author with interesting credentials: graduate with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tampa and a BA in Theater from the University of Alaska Anchorage. She's lived in a high desert, the frozen tundra, and the subtropics, so, she's got most extreme climates covered. The things she writes can be as dramatically different as the places she's lived, though she tends the most toward black comedy and speculative fiction. She's worked on novels, short stories, stageplays, and screenplays. In 2020, she was published by the Florida Writers Association in their anthology called, "Create an Illusion."