Linda Critchfield read natural sciences in college and spent twenty years working as an orthodontic imaging analyst before being laid off during the recession of 2008. Her search for a new career path in the midst of middle age has been one of the inspirations for her writing. After leaving the dental field she worked in a variety of jobs including map survey analyst, roadkill cleanup coordinator and paperwork drudge to a group of tax collectors. She is a civil servant and lives in Southern California.