Eliza Nellums is the author of All That's Bright and Gone, which was named an Amazon Editor's Pick for December and was praised by The Washington Post and RealSimple Magazine. A member of the Metro Wriders, a weekly critique group that meets in Dupont Circle, she is also an amateur botanist and avid gardener who divides her time between plants, books, and cats. Raised in the Detroit suburbs, she now lives with her cat outside Washington, DC.