Laurel Hightower grew up in Kentucky, attending college in California and Tennessee before returning home to horse country, where she lives with her husband, son, and a rescue Pit bull. She works as a paralegal in a mid-size firm, wrangling litigators by day and writing at night.
A bourbon and beer girl, she’s a fan of horror movies and true life ghost stories. She is the author of Whispers in the Dark and Crossroads, and co-edited the charity anthology We Are Wolves as well as the upcoming The Dead Inside, an identity horror anthology. Her short fiction has appeared in several publications, and her newest novella, Below, releases in March of 2022.