As a Navy brat, Renee lived on three continents before her family settled in Virginia. She currently resides in southern Nevada with her partner, Pam, and their poodles Zara and Poppy. Renee works and plays in the desert, where she enjoys photography and hiking. Even though Renee has been paid to do all sorts of jobs, ranging from dental assistant to bartender, data entry clerk to maintenance worker, and field sampler to pet-sitter, she insists she’s only had one job—writer—and all the rest has just been research.