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Jacquelyn Mitchard is a New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels for adults and teenagers. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club. She is a frequent lecturer and a professor of fiction and creative nonfiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband and children.

Lindsey J. Palmer is the author of the novels Reservations for Six, Otherwise Engaged, If We Lived Here, and Pretty in Ink. She is the deputy editor of BrainPOP, an animated education site for kids. Previously, she was an editor at SELF, Redbook, and Glamour. After fifteen years as a New Yorker, in 2020 Lindsey relocated to Cape Cod with her family.