Riss M. Neilson is a magna cum laude graduate of Rhode Island College, where she won the English department’s Jean Garrigue Award, which was judged by novelist Nick White. She is the author of young adult novels Deep in Providence—a 2022 finalist for the New England Book Awards—and I’m Not Supposed to be in the Dark, and adult debut, A Love Like the Sun. She is from Providence and lives for the city’s art and culture scene. When she’s not writing, she’s watching anime or playing video games with her two children.