Sandra Kitt is the author of more than twenty novels as well as numerous short stories. She is the recipient of the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award and the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award. A native New Yorker, she previously worked as a graphic designer, illustrating books and exhibiting her own work, which is included in the collection of the Museum of African American Art. She formerly served as the managing director of the Richard S. Perkin Collection in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.