About the Author

Rosemary Poole-Carter writes under the influence of the Southern Gothic, history, mystery, and the visual and performing arts. In her novels Only Charlotte, Women of Magdalene, What Remains, and Juliette Ascending, all set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, she explores the uneasy lives of characters in the post-Civil War American South. For her novel-in-progress, she returns in imagination to her home state of Texas, bringing her protagonist to the island city of Galveston to confront personal demons as the Great Storm of 1900 hurtles towards the Gulf Coast. 

A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Rosemary was a long-time resident of Houston, where she practiced her devotion to reading and writing with students of a community college system. In recent years, she has lived and written by the Eno River in Durham, North Carolina, sojourned in Georgia, and now resides in Okemos, Michigan. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and the Historical Novel Society and a passionate supporter of public libraries and independent bookstores.