Kyla-Maree Simcoke was born and raised in Hay, New South Wales Australia. She moved to St Louis in 1985 where she went to nursing school and met her husband of 32 years. They have two daughters. Kyla has always had a passion for writing. The Distance Between Us A Story of International Love and Murder is her first novel. Her book has been featured in The St Louis Gazelle magazine twice and was reviewed in the St Louis Post Dispatch.