Tasha Alexander attended the University of Notre Dame, where she signed on as an English major in order to have a legitimate excuse for spending all her time reading. Following graduation, she played nomad for several years, she lived in Amsterdam, London, Wyoming, Vermont, Connecticut and Tennessee before settling with her husband, the also writer <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2301303A" target="_blank">Andrew Grant</a>, in Chicago. When not reading, she can be found hard at work on her next novel.