Sharon Fiffer did not begin her writing career as a mystery author. After co-editing (with her husband, writer Steve Fiffer) three acclaimed collections of literary memoirs, Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own and Family: American Writers Remember Their Own, both published by Pantheon; and Body, published by Bard, Sharon found her inner Nancy Drew.

Sharon lives in the Chicago area with her husband Steve and, depending on the time of year, one, two or three of her children. She admits to being a collector and scrounger, but is desperately, after masquerading as Belinda St. Germaine, the decluttering guru in The Wrong Stuff, trying to reform.