New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry has published nine novels: Losing the Moon, Where the
River Runs, When Light Breaks, Between the Tides, The Art of Keeping Secrets, Driftwood Summer, The Perfect
Love Song, Coming up for Air and the upcoming And Then I Found You—which will be released by St. Martin’s Press
in April 2013. Hailed as a fresh new voice in southern fiction, Henry has been shortlisted for the Townsend Prize for
Fiction, and nominated four different times for the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Novel of the Year. Her
work is published in five languages and in audiobook by Brilliance Audio.
Henry has appeared in numerous magazines including Good Housekeeping, skirt! magazine, South magazine, and
Southern Living. Two of her novels were Okra Picks and Coming up For Air was selected for the August 2011 Indie
Next List. She is a frequent speaker at fundraisers, library events and book festivals. A full time writer, wife, and
mother of three—Henry lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama.
Patti Callahan Henry grew up in Philadelphia, the daughter of an Irish minister, and moved south with her family
when she was 12 years old. With the idea that being a novelist was “unrealistic,” she set her sights on becoming a
pediatric nurse, graduating from Auburn University with a degree in nursing, and from Georgia State with a Master’s
degree in Child Health. She left nursing to raise her first child, Meagan, and not long after having her third child,
Rusk, she began writing down the stories that had always been in her head. Henry wrote early in the mornings, before
her children woke for the day, but it wasn’t until Meagan, then six, told her mother that she wanted “to be a writer
of books” when she grew up, that Henry realized that writing was her own dream as well. She began taking writing
classes at Emory University, attending weekend writers’ conferences, and educating herself about the publishing
industry, rising at 4:30 AM to write. Her first book, Losing the Moon, was published in 2004.

