L. M. KEMP lives and works in upstate London (Essex). She writes for a vast variety of creative, cultural, corporate and clandestine clients: most recently coauthoring personalized books for Wonderbly; reviewing pilot episodes, cheap perfumes and random Instagram accounts for Ralph magazine; and editing lengthy and devastating reports for Greenpeace. For the last two years her work has been dominated by the research and development of the I, Spy series and a deep dive into the murky world of modern spycraft.