Writing poems since she learned how to put pencil to paper, Anita Renaghan wrote her first novel in high school. She has worked as bartender, aircraft mechanic, and audiovisual technician in the past two decades, at the same time writing several novels, a screenplay, and hundreds of songs. Using her innate ability to notice patterns of human behavior, she loves a good character study. Anita Renaghan lives with her husband and young daughter in the Chicago suburbs.