Rhoda Belleza grew up in Los Angeles, where she wrote X-Files fanfiction and stuffed avocados into her face. She works as a children's editor for a publishing business and lives in a bright Brooklyn apartment with way too many bikes and shoes. Rhoda spends her free time obsessing over nail painting tutorials, watching kung fu movies, and sewing together crooked objects that pass for garments when she isn't writing. Her debut novel is Empress of a Thousand Sky. @rhodabee is her Twitter handle.