Bea Koch is a writer and historian living in Los Angeles, California. She co-owns The Ripped Bodice, the west coast’s only exclusively romance bookstore. 

Bea received a BA from Yale in Renaissance Studies and an MA from NYU in Costume History. Her areas of expertise include early modern embroidery and material cultures and the intersection of history and fantasy in Regency romance novels.

Bea is represented by Holly Root at Root Literary.