E. J. Cross lives in Kitchener, Ontario with her family. A graduate of Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute, she has been writing since she was fifteen years of age. Through the hardships of treating her mental health issues, she has used creative writing as a form of therapy, inventing fantastical scenarios to escape the struggles of mundane life. As an advocate for equal representation in the media, E. J. Cross strives to create characters of various mentalities, creeds, races, genders, and sexualities in order to diversify the genre of young adult fiction.