L. L. Farmer, a native Floridian, attended the University of Florida where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in English. After teaching in her hometown of Orlando for nine years, she relocated to New York City where she taught and lived for nearly a decade. In 2014, while raising a small child and teaching high school, she earned a Master’s degree in Creative Writing. The next two years were spent on researching and writing two novels. The second of the novels is the recently published Slave Ship Rising (2017). She is currently preparing to publish the first book in her butt-kicking heroine series.