Lynne Hugo's roots are in New England. A National Endowment For the Arts Fellowship recipient, she has also received repeat individual artist grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her books include twelve novels as well as a memoir, Where the Trail Grows Faint, which won the Riverteeth Creative Nonfiction Book Prize. Her latest novels are Mothers of Fate (4/2025) The Language of Kin (7/2023) and A Matter of Mercy, 10th Anniversary Edition (8/2024). A licensed therapist, she's married with children, grandchildren, and a ball-obsessed half-Lab, half-beagle.