Abbie Payne was born and is growing up just outside of Houston, Texas. She cultivated a love of books at an early age and was always the "smart kid" of the class, so through her free time she also found a love for telling stories. After being severely bullied in elementary school and junior high, she found her only friends to be book characters and her only relief from severe depression in writing. She is also the author of The Outcasts series.