Kim Sanders was born and raised in the South and currently lives in South Carolina with her husband. Sanders received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina and a doctor of law degree from Emory University. Over the years, she has worked as a journalist, a photographer, an editor, and an attorney. After winning sixth place in a Writer’s Digest short story contest, she decided to pursue yet another career as a fiction writer. Her debut novel SHADES OF GRAY became an Amazon bestseller. THE EX LOTTERY was released on May 19, 2014.