Sierra Maze is a critical care physician and the author of White Coat, Black Heart (Brain Child Publishing, 2024) and Juno Rising (Brain Child Publishing, 2025).

She has worked in the ICU for over a decade. The experience generates things that do not have adequate civilian language — the specific silence after a long code, the gap between what the system says it does and what it actually does for specific patients, the institutional dynamics that make certain kinds of harm invisible. Fiction is the container she built for those things.

White Coat, Black Heart is a medical thriller grounded in the documented realities of alarm fatigue, medication protocol gaps, and the absolute trust that patients place in clinical staff. It is not a procedural. It is a novel about what happens when that trust is weaponized by someone who knows exactly where the gaps are.

Juno Rising is a psychological thriller about Juno Knox — a mixed-race girl raised in poverty in California, tried as an adult at twelve for killing her abuser, released at twenty-two, and navigating reentry while building a life and being watched by someone who has been watching her since childhood. It is a novel about what the system does to a child who survives, and what survival costs.

Sierra writes in the early morning, before the hospital. She lives in California.