Jeanne Kalogridis shares a home with her partner on the West Coast, as well as two pets. She is the author of the dark fantasy and historical novels The Borgia Bride, The Scarlet Contessa, The Devil's Queen, and others. Kalogridis was born in Florida and holds a B.A. She has a bachelor's degree in Russian and a master's degree in linguistics, and she spent eight years teaching English as a second language at The American University before retiring to write full-time.