Emily Ross received a 2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist award in fiction for her YA thriller Half in Love with Death. She is a 2012 graduate of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program and an editor and contributor at Dead Darlings, a website dedicated to discussing the craft of novel writing. She loves dark mysteries and anything noir. She is the mother of two millennials and lives in Quincy Massachusetts with her husband, Dave, and her elusive cat, Beau.