Taylor Steven’s life-story reads almost like that of one of her characters Her adolescence was spent in a communal apocalyptic cult, in a nomadic existence that stretched across four continents. By the time Steven’s escaped, already in her twenties, imagination had become a survival mechanism employed to cope with sadistic cult leaders and in a world devoid of books or television.

The Informationist is Steven’s debut novel. She has a website at taylorstevensbooks.com