Autumn Krause's next YA novel, Grave Flowers, will be published in Fall 2025 by Peachtree Teen. Her previous novel, Before the Devil Knows You're Here, which Kirkus Reviews calls “highly imaginative and powerfully affecting" in a starred review, was a Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year and Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year. Her first novel, A Dress for the Wicked, was published by Harper Teen. Autumn is a magazine writer in Orange County, California, who loves fashion, writing, and Instagram. Her favorite book is The Brothers Karamazov, and she is most often found wearing a black lace dress and writing in her favorite local coffee shop.