Kristen Ness

 I'm tall. I write. I stay up late.

I grew up mostly in South Carolina, spending countless days with nature and falling in love with the ocean and its creatures on Isle of Palms, where, for the past ten years, I've walked the beach at sunrise each summer in search of sea turtle nests as a volunteer for the Island Turtle Team. While practicing immigration law for twenty years, I've been moonlighting in pursuit of my lifelong passion for writing and my obsession with marine biology. Writing, real estate, politics, and even publishing run in my blood as the daughter of an English teacher and a land developer, and the great-granddaughter of the 14th Governor of North Dakota whose family owned and published The Bismarck Tribune. I have a BA in English from Duke University, a JD from the University of South Carolina School of Law. I'm an appointed member of the Coral Advisory Panel for the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council. I live in Charleston, SC, with my husband, our two children, and a cat.

At Loggerheads is my first novel.  

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