Clea Simon is a Massachusetts-based writer, journalist and a regular contributor to the "New York Times," "Boston Globe," "San Francisco Chronicle," "Ms.", "Rolling Stone "and Salon.com. She's the author of three nonfiction books, " Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings, Fatherless Women: How We Change After We Lose Our Dads, "and" The Feline Mystique: On the
Mysterious Connection Between Women and Cats." She lives in Cambridge, MA, with her husband, the writer Jon S. Garelick, and their cat, Musetta. "Mew is for Murder" is Simon's first mystery novel.
