Kristen Marquette has worked as a tutor, receptionist, and freelancer to support her fiction writing habit. She writes middle grade and young adult fantasy with the occasional supernatural tale thrown in. In no particular order, she's also an animal lover, an avid reader of everything and anything, a picture taker, a nature lover, and a tea addict. Michigan born and raised, Kristen currently lives in mid-Michigan with her husband and pup, Arya.