Jeanne Kalogridis

Jeanne Kalogridis
J.M. Dillard at a Tampa, Florida Star Trek convention, 1989
J.M. Dillard at a Tampa, Florida Star Trek convention, 1989
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Florida, U.S.
Pen nameJ.M. Dillard
OccupationWriter
EducationUniversity of South Florida (BA, MA)
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Jeanne Kalogridis (pronounced Jean Kal-o-GREED-us), also known by the pseudonym J.M. Dillard (born 1954), is an American writer of historical, science and horror fiction.

She was born in Florida and studied at the University of South Florida, earning first a BA in Russian and then an MA in Linguistics. After college she taught English as a foreign language at the American University in Washington, D.C., before moving to the West Coast.