Dawn Tripp is the nationally bestselling author of five novels. Her most recent book, Jackie, was just longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and won the San Diego Writers Festival Historical Fiction Award. Her previous novel Georgia was finalist for the New England Book Award and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. Tripp is also the author of Game of Secrets, Moon Tide, and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Conjunctions, NPR, and others. Her books have been published into a dozen languages. She serves on the executive board of the Boston Book Festival and on the board of Gnome Surf: A non-profit surf therapy organization focused on creating a culture shift towards kindness, love, and acceptance for athletes of all abilities. She graduated from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her sons.