13 Facts About Chelsea Cain

Chelsea Snow Cain was born on February 5,1972 and is an American writer of novels and columns.

Chelsea Cain spent her early childhood on a hippie commune outside of Iowa City.

Chelsea Cain's father dodged the Vietnam draft and her parents lived "underground" for several years.

Chelsea Cain spent the school year in Bellingham with her mother and the summers in Florida with her father and stepmother and stepbrother.

Chelsea Cain left Bellingham after high school to study political science at the University of California, Irvine, where she wrote for the New University newspaper and became the opinion editor.

One of her professors presented it to several editors for review, and Seal Press picked it up as Chelsea Cain's first published work.

Chelsea Cain traveled across the United States on book tour with Dharma Girl, living for a brief period in Portland, Oregon, and then in New York City.

Chelsea Cain is married to Marc Mohan, a video store owner and film reviewer for The Oregonian, and have lived in Southeast Portland since 2006.

Chelsea Cain composed a weekly column for Portland's alternative newspaper, The Portland Mercury and started contributing to Portland's major daily, The Oregonian in 2003.

Chelsea Cain wrote her first thriller Heartsick in 2004, while pregnant with her daughter.

In March 2016, Chelsea Cain started writing a new Marvel Comics series, Mockingbird, the first solo series about the character.

Chelsea Cain is the writer of comic book series Man-Eaters for Image Comics with artists Kate Niemczyk and Lia Miternique, which became available in shops in September 2018 and ended in October 2019.

Chelsea Cain went on to ask for volunteers to do sensitivity reading, as she stated the book was expensive to produce and she could not offer any pay for the job.