Dawn Tripp is the nationally bestselling author of five novels. Her most recent, Jackie, a fictionalized biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and won the San Diego Writers Historical Fiction Award. She is also the author of Georgia, finalist for the New England Book Award and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. Previous novels include Game of Secrets, Moon Tide, and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for fiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, AGNI, NPR, and Conjunctions. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. She graduated from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts where is finishing her next novel. She is passionate about supporting organizations that empower, educate, and inspire children and young adults. She has previously served as writer-in-residence at the Island School and on the executive board of the Moses Brown School, as well as on the board of Gnome Surf, a non-profit organization that provides adaptive surf therapy for athletes of all abilities. She currently serves as chair of the board of the Boston Book Festival.