L.M. Miller is a Texas girl, born and bred. The Life and Trials of Persephone Black is her first series to be published and includes Blood and Beasts as well as Fangs and Fur. She graduated from Texas A&M University with her bachelor's and Sam Houston State University with her master's. Her play, Chartreuse, won the International Thespian Playwrighting Competition in 2008. She currently lives with her husband and dachshund in the Texas countryside.