ELISE CHIDLEY was born in eSwatini and went to school and university in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her first novel, Your Roots Are Showing (published by Grand Central, and by Orion in the UK as The Wrong Sort of Wife), was nominated for Best First Book and Best Single Title Contemporary Romance at the RITA Awards. She received her MFA from Penn State and now lives in Connecticut, teaching creative writing at The Westport Writers' Workshop. The Raven, the Wolf, and the Rose is her first YA novel.