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Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist, an academic, and bestselling writer of mystery novels, who works in the United States and Canada. She is a Professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She divides her time between work for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only fifty forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Her schedule also involves a number of speaking engagements around the world.

The fictional heroine in her books, Temperance Brennan, is a forensic anthropologist in the novels. Her life closely mimics that of her creator.

She received a B.A. in anthropology from American University in 1972, a M.A. in physical anthropology from Northwestern University in 1972, and a Ph.D. in physical anthropology from Northwestern University in 1975. She has taught at Northern Illinois University, University of Pittsburgh, Concordia University, and McGill University.

She has appeared in Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide. She has assisted Dr. Clive Snow in an exhumation in the area of Lake Atitlan in the highlands of southwest Guatemala. She was a member of the DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Teams) team to assist at the World Trade Center disaster.

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Kathy Reichs has written novels as well as technical books on anthropology and forensics. Her novels have been translated in 30 languages. Her first novel 'Déjà Dead' won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.

A good portion of the novels is based on real life science. Most of the techniques used and technology mentioned are things that Kathy Reichs uses in her real life job. The blood spatter analysis used in Cranial suture eccentricities: a case in which precocious closure complicated determination of sex and commingling. . The lead character is a forensic anthropologist named Temperance Brennan (played by Emily Deschanel) who moonlights as an author, writing about a fictional (in her world) forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.