Rachael Herron

Rachael Herron is the bestselling author of the novels The Ones Who Matter Most, Splinters of Light and Pack Up the Moon (all from Penguin), the Darling Bay and the Cypress Hollow series, and the memoir, A Life in Stitches (Chronicle). She received her MFA in writing from Mills College, Oakland. She teaches writing in the extension programs at both UC Berkeley and Stanford, and she's proud to be a New Zealander as well as a US citizen, though her Kiwi accent only comes out when she's very tired.