Fayette Fox

Fayette Fox grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and spent her childhood drawing, climbing trees and creating elaborate make-believe games with her friends. While she excelled at fiction writing at school, it wasn't something she chose to do for fun until high school.

Fayette initially started writing her debut novel "The Deception Artist" (Myriad Editions, May 2013) as part of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Rather than finishing in a month, the project took her five years.

She earned a BA in Creative Writing from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and a Publishing MA from the London College of Communication. Enlivened by London's diversity and urbanness, she made the city home for seven years. She commissioned guidebooks for global travel publisher Lonely Planet, before packing it all in and spending a year traveling around Asia. Fayette trekked in the Nepalese Himalayas, taught sex-ed to teenage girls in India, weeded rice paddies on organic farms in Japan and was attacked by a giant centipede. (She survived.)

Next she returned to the States and lived in Washington, DC, focusing on her novel before working with GoodWeave, an anti-child-labor non-profit.

These days, she makes San Francisco home. When not writing, she enjoys hiking, visiting art museums and studying improv.