Marianne Dougherty is an award-winning writer and beauty editor who has appeared on Live in L.A., Lifetime's New Attitudes, and Weekend Today. In 2001 Harper-Collins published Asian Beauty, which she wrote for celebrity makeup artist Margaret Kimura. Her freelance work has appeared in both trade and consumer magazines. In 2018 and again in 2022, she was a finalist for a Golden Quill Award for journalistic excellence. She resides in Santa Barbara, California, where she is on the faculty of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. This is her first novel.
