Jessica Olin grew up either thirty minutes or two hours north of Boston, depending on traffic. They spent a lot of their childhood dreaming up love stories both for themselves and others – including Real Person Fiction about their junior high celebrity crush, Simon Le Bon! They read their first romance novel as a teenager and immediately decided that they wanted to be a romance novelist when they grew up. Life and a strong drive to be practical took them away from that dream, through three different college degrees, four major career changes, and eight different states, until they realized they had the right idea at thirteen and started writing romance again. They currently live in a house that is constantly in need of repair with a criminal mastermind cat and a cat who has no thoughts in his head, only purrs. Jessica also has a grab bag of identities – Jewish, queer, fat, and neuro atypical – that are sorely underrepresented in romance, and they are determined to change that.

And if the name sounds familiar, yes, this is the same Jessica Olin who used to write Letters to a Young Librarian.