Kate Robards is the author of The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard and Only the Guilty Survive. Her debut novel, The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard, was nominated for the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, and was selected for the Harlequin Book Club. Only the Guilty Survive was published in 2024 and has been translated and distributed in the Greek market.

Kate holds a degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is a medical writer for a professional society. She lives outside Chicago with her husband and children.