Hilary Liftin grew up in Washington, D.C. A 1991 graduate of Yale University, she worked in the publishing industry for a decade before becoming a full-time writer. She has ghost-written several books and is the coauthor of Dear Exile: The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean, a book of letters she exchanged with Kate Montgomery. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.

Her email is hilary at hilaryliftin dot com.

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