Sarah Bruni is a writer, educator, editor, and translator. She holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and an MA in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. She is the author of the novel The Night Gwen Stacy Died, which published in 2013. Around that time Bruni stepped away from writing fiction, choosing instead to pursue an academic path. Ten year later, she returned to fiction—and to this novel in particular—as a response to her graduate-level field research.