Jessica Knoll is the New York Times best-selling writer who took the literary world by storm with her debut novel, "Luckiest Girl Alive," in 2015. The thriller spent four months on bestseller lists and spawned a 2022 Netflix movie of the same name, adapted and executive produced by Knoll and starring Mila Kunis. The story follows Ani FaNelli, whose perfect-life exterior masks the inner turmoil created by her traumatic past.

Knoll's follow-up, 2018’s "The Favorite Sister," focused on a pair of siblings who appear together on a reality show, to a murderous result. A page-turning thriller, it was another New York Times bestseller and an Amazon's Editor's Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense.

Her third novel, "Bright Young Women," was inspired by real-life serial killer Ted Bundy’s bloody trail of crime in the 1970s. It was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023, and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Kirkus Reviews, CrimeReads, and Booklist, among others, and was an Edgar Award finalist for Best Novel.

Prior to her literary success, Knoll was a senior editor at Cosmopolitan, and the articles editor at SELF. She is a graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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