Ice cream. Coffee. Lesbian romance. Karin has been devoted to all three for decades. The California native is the mother of two and lives with her wife in the Bay Area. Her official website is https://kallmaker.com/ or search on social media for "Kallmaker" – there's only one, which is probably for the best.

In addition to multiple Lambda Literary Awards for novels and short stories, she has won the Ann Bannon Popular Choice, multiple Goldies, and has been selected as a sapphic literature Trailblazer by the Golden Crown Literary Society.

Romance and Chocolate Ink is the personalized imprint for Karin Kallmaker's self-published work. Novel-length work published by Bella Books.