Brigid Kemmerer (born January 11, 1978) is an American author of more than one dozen young-adult fantasy and romance novels. She is best known for her series Cursebreakers, Defy the Night, and Letters to the Lost. == Early life == Kemmerer was born in Omaha, Nebraska, but lived in many other places during her early life including Albuquerque, New Mexico and Cleveland, Ohio, before settling in Annapolis, Maryland. She was raised Catholic. She worked in the finance industry before becoming a ful…