Hallie Shepherd

Hallie grew up on a farm in a small town in western Washington state (population 1,000). At night, the train horns echoed through the hills, rivaled only by the coyote howls. A voracious reader from an early age, she began writing a weekly column for the county newspaper at eleven. In college, she spent two years pretending she would stick with her computer science major before thankfully giving in to the inevitable and graduating with honors with a B.A. in English from Western Washington University. Since then, she has worked in the film industry as a screenwriter, producer, and actress, all the while knowing she would eventually return to her first love: novels.