Serena Burdick is the Toronto Star, Publishers Weekly, and international bestselling author of The Girls with No Names. She won the International Book Award for Historical Fiction in 2017 for her novel Girl in the Afternoon. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence, holds a Bachelors of Arts from Brooklyn College in English literature, and an Associates of Arts from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in theater. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two sons.