Alex Morgan spent over a decade working within the intersections of forensic pathology and behavioral science before turning to fiction. A former research consultant for several metropolitan police departments, her work focused on the physiological markers of acute stress: the “physical fingerprints” that trauma leaves on the human nervous system.
Her debut novel, Dead Stop, was inspired by the cold, clinical reality of laboratory ethics and the unsettling efficiency of the human “freeze” response. Morgan explores the thin line between scientific progress and moral decay. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest. When not writing, she collects vintage medical illustrations and studies the migratory patterns of urban scavengers.