Norine Dresser received a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA, then taught for 20 years at California State University, Los Angeles. She authored numerous published books and articles and wrote the 8-year award-winning Los Angeles Times column, Multicultural Manners. She is a member of the American Folklore Society, the Authors Guild, Western States Folklore Society, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, International Society for Anthrozoology, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, and Writers Guild of America, West.

Norine Dresser is a noted vampire scholar, writing several books on the topic and participating as a guest scholar of the Ministry of Tourism at the groundbreaking 1995 First World Dracula Congress in Romania. She also became a committee member for “Dracula 97,” celebrating the centennial publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. As a recognized authority on vampires and a card-carrying member of the Transylvanian Society of Dracula and Patron of the Vampire Empire, Dresser consulted and made many media appearances about the phenomenon on such venues as HBO, KCBS, The Learning Channel, Fox Family TV, UPN-TV, KNBC-TV, the Sci-Fi Channel and the Women’s Entertainment Channel.

She also helped organize and curate the Gallery of Folklore & Popular Culture, highlighting aspects of folklore through objects, art, and material culture of many places and times. (Information gathered from norinedresser.com and flpcgallery.org)