I was born in Austin, Texas on August 18, 1986. In the first few years of my life, my family bounced around several states until we finally settled in Michigan. I was a Girl Scout who dabbled in gymnastics and volleyball until I discovered horseback riding and it quickly consumed my heart and soul. When I discovered the Goosebumps books in elementary school, I decided I wanted to be RL Stine when I grew up. I own two horses and my passion is hunter/jumpers. My other passion is photography, and if you don't see me on a horse, you will probably see me with a camera in my face. I love to sing and I am always down for a night of karaoke. I love animals and have a lot of too many pets. In addition to books, I also love movies and own around four hundred of them. When I was sixteen, I wrote a one-act play for my creative writing class that became my first novel. For NaNoWriMo in November 2008, I wrote MY SOUL TO REAP and signed with literary agent Elizabeth Jote of Objective Entertainment on February 4th, 2009. A few months later, we sold the trilogy to Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.

Favorite Books: Vampire Academy series, Wicked Lovely, Kristin Cashore's Graceling and Fire, The Last Unicorn
Favorite Authors: early Laurell K. Hamilton, Richelle Mead, Melissa Marr, and Kristin Cashore
Favorite Movies: Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Fifth Element, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tombstone, Terminator movies
Favorite Music: rock and industrial/electronica
Favorite Music Artists: 30 Seconds to Mars, RED, Mariah Carey, Demi Lovato
Favorite Songs: Sweet Child O Mine
Favorite Broadway Show: The Lion King
Favorite TV Shows: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Lost, and Gossip Girl
Favorite Color: a bright cerulean blue
Favorite Car: VOLVO. I own an S60 T5
Favorite Bath & Body Works Scent: Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin
Favorite Animals: Horses, but I love polar bears, wolves and jaguars
My Pets: One horse, Pia; an Italian Greyhound, Martina; a cat, Lily; two gerbils, Gracie and Livy; and a turtle, Cleopatra VII.