Teresa (Katz) Thorne (born April 17, 1954) is an American writer and retired police captain.

T.K Thorne was born on April 17, 1954, in Montgomery, Alabama, to father Warren Katz, a WWII veteran and civilian engineer at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, and mother, Jane Lobman Katz, who was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 2002 for her own achievements in lobbying and activism.

She retired as a captain and assumed an Executive Director position with City Action Partnership (CAP) in Birmingham.

[3] Thorne's novels are reinterpreted stories told from the perspectives of unnamed, briefly-mentioned women of the Bible: the wives of Noah and Lot.

Noah's Wife won Gold in the Historical Fiction category for the 2009 Foreword Independent Books reviews.