Ali Hazelwood is a chick lit, contemporary and romance novelist with several published works and peer reviewed articles. She has written articles on the subject of brain cancer and her stories are known for often unhappy ever afters in which most of the characters do not make it out. The author is originally from Italy but over the years she has lived in varied places including Japan and Germany. She would then move to the United States, where she graduated with a neuroscience doctorate. She recently took up a job as a college professor and is getting used to it even though she was initially terrified of it. When she is not working on her novels or teaching she can be found watching science fiction movies, eating cake pops or running.