Lamplighter graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.
She is married to fellow author John C. Wright, and has four children.
Set in the present day, it portrays Miranda and her siblings attempting to rescue their father from a Hell similar to Dante's Inferno.
The trilogy received favorable starred reviews in Publishers Weekly,[3][4][5] which called the third novel "a satisfyingly epic combination of mythology, theology, and Shakespeare" and "intricate, intellectual fantasy at its best".
[9] The series follows the adventures of Rachel Griffin, the teenage daughter of an English duke who is attending Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts, a magic school based vaguely on St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, but set in New York's Hudson Highlands.