Kathleen Hart worked as a reporter in Washington, D.C., for 23 years, covering nuclear nonproliferation, energy, and the environment. She grew up in New England and received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She published a nonfiction book, Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food, with Random House and has appeared on NPR and C-SPAN. The Kiev Confession is her debut novel.