At a very early age, Morgan Leone had a deep fascination and love for story-telling; by six, Morgan would tell everyone that one day she would be an author. Growing up in London, Ontario, Morgan completed her master's in arts, focusing her interests on the Southern United States and the sublime and the beautiful, and was accepted into the doctorate program in English at the University of Western Ontario. Embracing the south in all of its glory and shame, it became inevitable that Morgan's first novel would have the characters in her book live and breathe the southern life.