Gina Goldhammer studied English and Creative Writing at Syracuse University, has a master's degree in literature from Harvard, and after graduation worked briefly on Wall Street and at US News & World Report magazine. For the next twenty years, she was the personal editor of the former US Secretary of State, Henry A. Kissinger, and worked with him closely on all his books, speeches and news columns, including his 1994 seminal work, Diplomacy. Gina's father was involved in geopolitics during the Cold War, attaining prominence in 1961 as the highest-ranking defector from a communist country - a story she is working into a novel. Gina is a Florida snowbird who spends time in London and Venice.