Kyra Davis

Kyra Davis was born in the San Francisco Bay Area where, with the exception of a brief stint in New York, she has spent her entire life. Like her protagonist, Kyra is biracial; her mother being of Jewish, Eastern European descent and her father having been African-American. She often considers herself to be something of a one woman Benetton ad.

She majored in Business and Humanities at Golden Gate University and, after graduating with her bachelor’s degree, took a job as the department manager of Nordstrom’s Savvy department. At age twenty-seven Kyra gave birth to a wonderful son and stayed home with him for the first eighteen months of his life. During her hiatus from work Kyra’s husband was diagnosed as being bipolar. Kyra and her husband tried to work together to manage his illness and maintain a stable home environment but in the end it didn’t work out the way either of them wanted and when their son was two they filed for divorce.

As a single mother on the verge of bankruptcy Kyra felt it was irresponsible to drown her sorrows in Cosmopolitans so she drowned them in Frappucinos and writing instead. The Frappucinos (complimented by a healthy dose of anxiety) lead to insomnia, which lead to more writing time and it wasn’t long before she realized that she had found her calling.

Two years later Kyra had an agent, a finished manuscript and bids from two New York publishing houses. She joyfully signed with Red Dress Ink for two contracts and a total of four books.

The critical and commercial success of Sex, Murder And A Double Latte and her second book Passion, Betrayal And Killer Highlights have allowed Kyra to make a living as a full time writer. She is thrilled to have found a career where she can profit from her own schizophrenic tendencies by giving all the voices in her head names and calling them "literary characters."