S.G. Redling is the author of Damocles, Flowertown, and The Widow File—the first novel featuring charismatic hit man Tom Booker. She was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, and raised in West Virginia. After graduating from Georgetown and living in New York City and California for a time, she re-settled in West Virginia and launched a fifteen-year career in morning radio. Redling still lives and writes in West Virginia, simultaneously pursuing obsessions with locavore dining, sustainable gardening, and international travel.