Stephanie Perkins is The New York Times and international bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door and Isla and the Happily Ever After.

She also edited two short-story collections: the winter collection My True Love Gave to Me and the summer collection Summer Days & Summer Nights.

She was born in South Carolina, raised in Arizona, and attended universities in California and Georgia. Since 2004 she has lived in the mountains of North Carolina.