In 2016, Kristina Neihouse she was awarded an Anne McKee Artist Fund Grant to publish her first novel, Knowing When to Leave. In 2018 Knowing When to Leave was named a Florida Book Award Silver Medalist. In January 2016 Josie McKenzie, a senior at Key West High School, decides to keep a journal. What follows is a chaotic year as South Florida and the United States are overcome by a mysterious virus and a destructive hurricane season. Almost fifteen years later Josie’s journal is discovered and read by one living in a drastically altered world.