[b]Gael Baudino[/b] (born 1955) is a contemporary American fantasy author who also writes under the pseudonyms of [b]Gael Kathryns, Gael A. Kathryns, K.M. Tonso[/b], and [b]G.A. Kathryns[/b]. She attended college at the University of Southern California. Sometime before 1994 she converted from Dianic Wicca and became a Quaker. As Gael Kathryns she contributed several instructional articles about harping to the Folk Harp Journal during the 1990s.