Kelly Dwyer is the author of three novels, including GHOST MOTHER, forthcoming in Fall 2024 with Union Square & Company, the imprint of Barnes & Noble. Her plays have been performed in New York, Boston, Madison, and Glasgow, and she is working on a script adaptation for her latest novel, a psychological ghost story. Kelly teaches novel writing through the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival, which runs throughout the year. She grew up in San Pedro, California, graduated from Oberlin College and the Iowa Writer’s’ Workshop, and now divides her time between Madison, Wisconsin and Los Angeles.