Michaela Thompson Friedman grew up on the Gulf Coast in the Northwest Florida Panhandle. She currently lives in New York City with her husband, Alan Friedman. She has worked as a newspaper reporter and a freelance journalist. She is the creator of 'Georgia Lee Maxwell', a Florida transplant working as a magazine correspondent in France (under the pseudonym 'Mickey Friedman'). All her novels have been republished as by Michaela Thompson.