Amanda DuBois started her career as a medical malpractice lawyer before transitioning to divorce and family law. She founded the Civil Survival Project, an organization that teaches advocacy skills to formerly incarcerated individuals. In addition to actively trying cases, she serves on the boards of Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, Uplift International, Washington State Association for Justice, and Peace Trees Vietnam, and is the past president of the Women's Funding Alliance. She wrote an online curriculum that teaches basic legal survival skills to marginalized individuals. She lives and practices law in Seattle. This is her first novel.