Katia Lief

Katia Lief’s next novel, Women Like Us, will be published by Grove Atlantic in June 2025. It’s the follow-up to Invisible Woman, also published by Grove Atlantic. She is also the author of A Map of the Dark and Last Night published by Mulholland Books/Little, Brown under the pseudonym Karen Ellis. Earlier work includes USA Today and international bestselling novels Five Days in Summer, One Cold Night, and The Money Kill, the fourth installment of her Karin Schaeffer series published by HarperCollins and nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She teaches fiction writing at The New School in Manhattan and lives with her family in Brooklyn.

She has also written under the names Kate Pepper and Karen Ellis