about
KIERAN VIOLA is a former editorial director and associate publisher of two successful children’s imprints. She has edited dozens of chapter books, middle grade, young adult, and adult crossover novels including New York Times bestsellers, critical darlings and character-driven IP. She has also written dozens of commercial novels and nonfiction titles for the middle grade and YA markets, including the New York Times best-selling Private series for Alloy Entertainment and the cult-favorite Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys. Today she focuses her writing on mystery novels for adults and is published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. When not busy collaborating with authors and editors, Kieran can be found writing, baking, shouting at instructors on her Peloton, and trying to drag her two sons off their screens by any means possible.