Katie Agnew was born in Edinburgh in 1972 and spent her childhood in Lasswade. She studied English at Aberdeen University and then journalism at City University in London. Her first job was as features writer on 19 magazine. Since then, she has written articles, celebrity interviews and columns for many magazines and newspapers including the Evening Standard, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and the Daily Mail. She worked as features editor on Marie Claire magazine before becoming a full time author. Katie now lives in Bath with her husband, John Latimer and their daughter, Olivia. Katie is the author of Drop Dead Gorgeous and Before We Were Thirty.