Katy Grabel is an author and daughter of Lee and Helen Grabel who were a professional magic duo. Her writings about stage magic have appeared in Writer’s Digest, She Writes, Women Writers, Women’s Stories, ZYZZYVA and New Millennium Writings. She is the author of award-winning The Magician’s Daughter: A Memoir which has been chosen as a She Knows Book Club Recommendation. She has appeared on numerous podcasts, blogs, talk and radio shows. She shares her time between Taos, New Mexico and San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. She says: I began the book many years ago, but had to shelf it as I knew it would upset my father. It’s about the lure of the spotlight, but also the backstage, and inevitably, I revealed many of his tricks and illusions. It was published after his death.

Author wearing her father’s blacktails.