Susan Donovan Bernhard is the bestselling author of WESTERLY and WINTER LOON, which won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient, a graduate of the GrubStreet Novel Incubator, and a 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers Conference. Her fiction has appeared in Little Bird Stories and Solstice Lit Mag and she is a contributor to Cognoscenti, Lit Hub, and the blog Dead Darlings. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, Susan was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana and currently lives in Portugal where she is at work on her third novel.