Katie MacAlister (born March 1964) is a Seattle-area author of fiction and non-fiction. Her most popular titles are historical, contemporary, and paranormal romance. She also writes young-adult books under the pseudonym Katie Maxwell and mysteries under the pseudonym Kate Marsh.[1]
MacAlister's contemporary and historical books frequently feature Anglophile, flawed heroines who are tall, Rubenesque, klutzy, or divorced. Their male counterparts are typically men who have had something happen in their past.[citation needed]