Kristina Riggle lives and writes in West Michigan. Her debut novel, Real Life & Liars, was a Target "Breakout" pick and a "Great Lakes, Great Reads" selection by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. The Life You’ve Imagined was honored by independent booksellers as an IndieNext “Notable” book.

Kristina has published short stories in the Cimarron Review,Literary Mama, Espresso Fiction, and elsewhere, and she works as co-editor for fiction at Literary Mama. Kristina was a full-time newspaper reporter before turning her attention to creative writing. As well as writing, she enjoys reading, yoga, dabbling in (very) amateur musical theatre, and spending lots of time with her husband, two kids and dog.

Real Life & Liars is set in Charlevoix, Michigan, a town close to Kristina's heart as the home of her grandparents where she has visited often over the years. It centers on a faded flower child and her quirky family trying (and failing) to hide their problems from each other. Her second novel, The Life You've Imagined, is set in the fictional town of Haven, Michigan, inspired by Grand Haven and similar small towns along the southern Lake Michigan shore. The Life You've Imagined tells of three friends and a mother connected by a dying family business, learning to cope with life as it is, not as they planned. Her latest novel is Things We Didn’t Say, featuring a frayed blended family about to come undone completely when a teen-age son goes missing.