J. R. Ward (edit name/settings)

J.R. Ward is a #1 New York Times and USAToday Best Selling author of erotic paranormal romance. She lives in the south with her incredibly supportive husband and her beloved golden retriever. After graduating from law school, she began working in healthcare in Boston and spent many years as Chief of Staff of one of the premier academic medical centers in the nation. Writing has always been her passion and her idea of heaven is a whole day of nothing but her computer, her dog and her coffee pot.

J.R. Ward has won an RITA Award (Romance Writers of America) in 2007. Also has been nominated 6 times for the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards, winning once for Lover Awakened.

***Also writing as Jessica Bird and Susan Squires***