Dr Colgin earned her PhD in Pathology from the University of Washington in Seattle. She switched careers in 2012, after the birth of her son, deciding a full-time career, motherhood, and tackling a Masters in Marketing while being a professional author might keep her just as busy as research. In her youth, she spent 15 years doing research into aging, cancer, and telomeres, and many more years doing creative writing. Like all writers, she dislikes using the third person for bios but does it anyway because she's a stickler for the classics.