Jan Coffey is a pen name for the United States marriage of writers formed by James A. McGoldrick and Nikoo K. Coffey McGoldrick. They also write historical-romance novels as May McGoldrick and other suspense-romance novels as Nicole Cody. As Nikoo McGoldrick & James A. McGoldrick, they also wrote the book Marriage of Minds.
James A. "Jim" McGoldrick and Nikoo K. Coffey met 1979 in Stonington, Connecticut, and married the following year. He has a Ph.D. in sixteenth-century British literature and she was a manufacturing engineer. They have two children and reside in Watertown, Connecticut.