Lisa Renée Julien is the author of Midnight in New California, set in San Francisco in the 2030’s. She is currently writing a prequel. When not writing, she works full-time as a product manager in the payments industry. She earned a BFA in photography in 2007, after which she pursued a career in business, and then earned an MBA in 2017, after which she wrote a novel and pursued a career as a writer.