Bonnie Kistler is a former trial lawyer, spending her career in private practice with major law firms and successfully tried cases in federal and state courts across the country, as well as teaching writing skills to other lawyers and lecturing frequently to professional organisations and industry groups. She is the author of The Cage (HarperCollins US and Canelo UK 2022) and House on Fire (Atria US 2019). She lives in Florida and the mountains of western North Carolina with her husband and two daughters.