Born in London, England more years ago than she cares to remember, Kate Saundby was educated in England and Belgium and emigrated to the U.S. in 1957 as a GI bride. Widowed in 1989, she remarried in 1993, and has two grown sons and four grandchildren. Her younger son, Nicholas Krueger, an award-winning graphic artist, has produced many of her book covers. In her day job, Kate is a social worker for the State of Tennessee.

The Wages of Justice received the 2001 Dream Realm Science Fiction Award and Dark Angel received the 2001 Cover Art Award.
The Wages of Justice and The Spirit Dogs of Sirius were both 2003 EPPIE finalists. Dark Angel was a cover art finalist in EPIC's 2002 Quasars. The Wages of Greed and A Circle of Arcs were 2001 EPPIE finalists. Golden Silence and The Spirit Dogs of Sirius were 2000 Dream Realm Award Finalists along with the cover art for Aase's Daughter and The Wages of Justice. The Wages of Justice was a 1999 Frankfurt Award Nominee. The Other Woman was voted Best Poem in the 1998 Preditors and Editors Poll.

Kate's latest title, A Distant Bell, has been released by Double Dragon Publishing in electronic and paperback editions. A sequel to her romantic historical time travel, A Circle of Arcs, A Distant Bell continues to meld actual persons and events with fictional ones. This time the story is set, in part, at the Court of Louis IV, the Sun King, at Versailles during the Black Mass/poisoning scandals.