Leah Konen is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied journalism and English literature. She is the author of the forthcoming thriller, The Perfect Escape. Her debut thriller, All the Broken People, was a Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, She Reads and Charlotte Observer best summer book pick, and was featured in the Reese Witherspoon Hello Sunshine newsletter. She's also the author of several young adult novels, including Love and Other Train Wrecks and The Romantics. She lives in Brooklyn and Saugerties, NY, with her husband, their daughter, Eleanor, and their dog, Farley.