Kristen Perrin is originally from Seattle, Washington, where she spent several years working as a bookseller before moving to the UK to do a master's and PhD. She lives with her family in Surrey, where she can be found poking around vintage bookstores, stomping in the mud with her two kids, and collecting too many plants. Her middle grade novel Attie and the World Breakers was published in German, Dutch, and Polish. The nationally bestselling How to Solve Your Own Murder was her adult debut, and How to Seal Your Own Fate is its follow-up.