Larissa Payton writes psychological spy thrillers that explore the boundaries between science and self. Her debut novel, Natural Causes: Emergence, follows Tré Landin a chemist turned covert operative through a world where memory can be rewritten and loyalty is measured in code. She explores the tension between identity and obedience in a world where memory is programmable, and freedom is a system glitch. She believes the most dangerous experiments aren’t done in laboratories, but in the human mind.

Payton lives in the United States and is currently writing Lattice Protocol The Betrayal, the next book in the Natural Causes saga.