J.C. Sasser was born in Savannah, Georgia and raised in rural southeast Metter, GA. She started her professional career at age twelve, working as a dishwasher, waitress, and cook at a truck stop off Georgia’s I-16. Over her life, she has worked as an envelope licker, tortoise tagger, lifeguard, Senate page, model, editor, water-polo coach, marine biologist, plant grower, and software consultant. She currently lives in a WWII barracks in the south Georgia woods with her husband, Thomas, along with their two sons, T.C. and Robert Esten, and two dogs, Boo Reedy and Batman.