Kathy Reichs, born July 7, 1948, is a renowned American crime writer, forensic anthropologist, and academic. She is a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Reichs is well known for inspiring the television series Bones.

Professional Background
Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only fifty forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. She received her Ph.D. at Northwestern and is a native of Chicago.

Awards
She has been awarded the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel (1998) for Deja Dead.

Dr. Reichs divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent expert witness in criminal trials.