Kady Cross

Kady Cross is a pen name of a Canadian-born author, born in 1971, who also writes as Kate Cross, Kathryn Smith and Kate Locke. Under this name she writes young adult steampunk, most notably The Steampunk Chronicles, which begins with The Girl in the Steel Corset and continues through The Girl in the Clockwork Collar, The Girl with the Iron Touch and The Girl with the Windup Heart. The books are set in a city where gears and clockwork run everyday life.