Kelly Braffet's first novel, Josie and Jack, was published in 2005. It was praised as wicked fun . . . a gothic tour of hell (Los Angeles Times) and a compelling study of love, hate, and psychopathic jealousy (New York Post). Braffet was born in Long Beach, California, in 1976, and has lived in Arizona, rural Pennsylvania and Oxford, England. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, and has taught novel writing at the Sackett Street Writing Workshop. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, the writer Owen King.