Originally from New Castle, Pennsylvania, Paula R. Hilton earned her bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from the University of New Orleans. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion website and NPR's This I Believe, as well as in a number of literary journals, including The Tulane Review, Kalliope, and Ellipsis. Hilton's debut novel, Little Miss Chaos, was a short-listed finalist in the 2014 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.  She lives with her husband, son, and daughter in Fleming Island, Florida, and is working on Daphne and the Delirious Girls, her second book for young adults.