Lynne Hugo is an American author whose 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 publications include thirteen novels as well as a memoir, Where the Trail Grows Faint: A Year In the Life of A Therapy Dog Team which won the Riverteeth Creative Nonfiction Book Prize. Her latest novels are The Language of Kin (7/2023), A Matter of Mercy, 10th Anniversary Edition (8/2024), and MOTHERS OF FATE (4/22/25) She has also published two books of poetry and a children's book.
While the bulk of her time goes to her writing, Lynne is also a licensed, practicing psychotherapist. She lives with her husband, a college professor and photographer, in the Midwest. The couple are parents of two, have three grandchildren, and an energetic beagle/Lab mix who excels at swimming, retrieving tennis balls, and terrorizing squirrels. In her spare time, Lynne loves to hike, do water aerobics, read, and spend time with their rowdy extended family.
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