Katie Runde is the author of The Shore, an NYTimes Editors' Pick, an Indie Next Pick, an Amazon Editors' Choice, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, as well as a “best book of summer” choice by Glamour and Entertainment Weekly. She is originally from the Jersey Shore, where her novel is set. She attended the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in 2007 and 2008, when she took classes that she loved so much she decided to keep writing forever, and she holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She lives in Iowa City with her husband and two daughters.