Patricia Briggs (born December 21, 1965) is an American writer of fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. == Biography == Patricia Briggs was born in 1965 in Butte, Montana, United States. She now resides in Benton City, Washington. Briggs began writing in 1990 and published her first novel Masques in 1993, and has primarily written in the fantasy and urban fantasy genres. Her ninth novel, Moon Called, was published in 2006, and was the first in the Mercy Tho…