
She had to undergo thirteen surgeries over six years to reconstruct her face, and has an artificial left eye because of the accident. At the age of eighteen, three weeks after graduating high school, Bray was involved in a serious car accident. She and her family moved to West Virginia for a brief period, then to Corpus Christi, Texas and finally to Denton, Texas, where Bray attended high school.


Her father was a gay Presbyterian minister, and her mother was an English teacher.

Martha Elizabeth Bray was born in Montgomery, Alabama. Martha Elizabeth " Libba" Bray (March 11, 1964) is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners.
