K. L. Going lives in Glen Spey, NY. Since graduating college she has worked as an adult literacy tutor, a ticket agent for an airline, a front desk clerk at a resort hotel, as an assistant to two agents at a Manhattan Literary agency, and a manager of an independent bookstore. Currently she is writing full time.

She has lived in Maine, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and New York City and has a very unsettling obsession with Ketchup.