E.J. Andrews was raised in a small town on the west coast of New Zealand by a gold miner with a fascination for guns and a nurse with an obsession with dragons. Growing up, E.J. constantly felt that she needed to write down the vivid thoughts going around her head, but it wasn't until her aunt gave her John Marsden's Tomorrow series to read that her writing bloomed and her interest in books became a full-blown fixation. At the age of eighteen she decided to live with her sister in Brisbane, Australia, where she found a job working at a boat club on the beautiful Moreton Bay. In between split shifts and while others her age were out enjoying their adolescence, E.J. was writing well into the early hours, trying to get down those ever-present ideas of a not-so-bright future. E.J. now lives on the Redcliffe peninsula with her partner and their cat Senga.