J. M. Dillard

Jeanne Kalogridis (pronounced "Jean Kal-o-GREED-us"), also known by the pseudonym J.M. Dillard (born 1954) is an Greek-American writer of historical and horror fiction. She was born in Florida and studied at the University of South Florida, earning first a BA in Russian and then an MA in Linguistics. After college she taught English as a foreign language at the American University in Washington, D.C., before moving to the West Coast. Her interests include yoga, Zen Buddhism, hermetics, languages, art and "reading everything ever published."