A.R. Mitchell lives in the Cascade foothills of Washington State with her wife—a mortician—their three grown children, and two rescue cats. Dinner table conversations in the Duvall household often revolve around life’s darker themes, from embalming techniques to the existential poetry of decay. With a sense of humor best described as the love child of David Lynch and Morticia Addams, Ren writes stories that blend the eerie with the everyday—like picket fences, dead roses, and the occasional guillotine.