K M WestK.M. West loves to explore ancient traditions and cultures, often challenging her characters with impossible choices, existential dread, and ruthless heartache.A second-generation Filipina-American, she uses writing to piece together a history that'sbeen rewritten, obscured, occluded, and in some cases, fed to crocodiles. Insatiable in her knowledge seeking, she's likely to be found devouring books on myths and ghosts (both real and perceived) alongside research papers on serial killers, war, and mental illness. As an IT professional, gym owner, yoga instructor, strength coach, mother, and partner, she spends any spare moment she has writing stories for people who want to believe in magic and love to have their hearts broken. Read More Read Less