GIN PHILLIPS grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, and has been writing for as long as she can remember. After earning a degree in political journalism, she worked as a freelance magazine writer for nearly a decade. She has lived in Ireland, Thailand, New York, and Washington, DC. She is the acclaimed author of The Well and the Mine (winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction) and Come in and Cover Me ("Original and strikingly beautiful." --Elle Magazine). She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her family.