Kate Montgomery (left) and Hilary Liftin


Kate Montgomery is the coauthor of Dear Exile: The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean. She was raised in Wakefield, Rhode Island. She studied at Yale and Columbia Universities, and has spent time teaching in both Czechoslovakia and Kenya. She is an editor at Heinemann Publishing. She and her husband David live in New Hampshire with their two sons, Kobi and Aidan and their daughter, Sadie.

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