Kathleen Baldwin (born Arizona, USA) is an American writer of comic romance novels set in the Regency period.

Award-winning author[1] Kathleen Baldwin was born and raised in Arizona, and moved 14 times before high school.

During her early years of writing, Baldwin was able to have some of her nonfiction and poetry published, but continually received rejection notices for her fiction submissions.

She quit her freelance work to concentrate on her writing and joined the Romance Writers of America.

Finally, after 63 rejection notices, Baldwin found a receptive editor at Kensington Books who purchased her novel, Lady Fiasco,[4] a "Regency Romantic Comedy".