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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) was born in Berkeley, California, where she lives with three autocratic cats. A professional writer and Tarot reader for more than thirty-five years, she has sold over seventy books and more than eighty works of short fiction and essays.

Yarbro's first story was published in 1969 in Worlds of If magazine, and she became a full-time writer the following year. Her novels include the werewolf volumes The Godforsaken and Beastnights; the quasi-fictional occult series Messages from Michael, More Messages from Michael, Michael’s People, and Michael for the Millennium; the Brides of Dracula trilogy; the Mycroft Holmes series with Bill Fawcett (as "Quinn Fawcett"), and the movie novelizations Dead & Buried and Nomads.

The author is best known for her series of historical horror novels featuring the Byronic vampire Saint-Germain, loosely inspired by the real-life eighteenth-century French count of the same name. The first book in the cycle, Hotel Transylvania: A Novel of Forbidden Love appeared in 1978. It has been followed by a number of sequels, including The Palace, Blood Games, Path of the Eclipse, Tempting Fate, Out of the House of Life, Darker Jewels, Better in the Dark, Mansions of Darkness, Writ in Blood, Blood Roses, Communion Blood, Come Twilight, A Feast in Exile, Night Blooming, Midnight Harvest, Dark of the Sun, and State of Grace. A spin-off sequence featuring Saint-Germain’s lover Atta Olivia Clemens comprises A Flame in Byzantium, Crusader’s Torch, and A Candle for D’Artagnan.

Yarbro's short fiction has been collected in Cautionary Tales, The Saint-Germain Chronicles, Signs & Portents, The Vampire Stories of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Apprehensions and Other Delusions.

In 2003, the World Horror Association presented Yarbro with its Grand Master Award.