Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent is a graduate of Iowa State University and the author of The Memory Watcher, The Perfect Roommate, The Thinnest Air, The Stillwater Girls, When I Was You, Unmissing, The Silent Woman, People Like Them, Gone Again, and Imaginary Strangers. Her debut psychological suspense, The Memory Watcher, hit #9 in the Kindle store and landed on the Amazon Most Sold chart. Her follow-up, The Thinnest Air, was a Washington Post bestseller five weeks in a row and reached #1 in the Kindle store. Her work has been nominated for two International Thriller awards, an Audie, and a Shirley Jackson award, featured in People Magazine and The New York Post, as well as optioned for film and television. Her novel, Unmissing, was adapted for Lifetime in 2024.
Minka also writes contemporary romance as Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author Winter Renshaw.
She is represented by Jill Marsal of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.