Born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Laura Philpot Benedict worked in public radio and sales promotion before marriage took her to West Virginia, where she began her own copywriting and marketing company. She has received a West Virginia Arts and Humanities Fellowship Grant and a Greenbrier Artists Stipend Grant for her fiction. Her short stories have been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and in the 6th Annual Writer's Digest Short, Short Story Competition Collection. She is a freelance book reviewer for The Grand Rapids Press (Michigan) and other newspapers. She resides in southern Illinois with her husband and two children. Isabella Moon is her first novel.
