EMILY COLIN is author of the New York Times bestseller The Memory Thief (Ballantine 2012) and The Dream Keeper's Daughter (Ballantine 2017). She is the 2017 recipient of the North Carolina Sorosis Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and the 2018 recipient of the North Carolina Greater Foundation of Women's Clubs Lucy Bramlett Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing. Originally from Brooklyn, she lives in Wilmington, NC, with her family.