Kira Peikoff is a writer based in New York City. She graduated with high honors from New York University in 2007 with a degree in journalism, and has written for The Daily News, The Orange County Register, Newsday, and New York magazine. She worked in the editorial departments of two major New York publishing houses before leaving in 2011 to focus on writing. LIVING PROOF, her first novel, was published in February 2012.