Jill San­topo­lo is the New York Times and inter­na­tion­al­ly best­selling author of Stars in an Ital­ian Sky, More Than Words, Every­thing After, and The Light We Lost, which was also a Reese’s Book Club pick. Her work has been trans­lat­ed into more than thir­ty-five lan­guages and has appeared on the New York Times, Wall Street Jour­nal, USA Today, Apple, Ama­zon, and Indiebound best­seller lists. She received a BA from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and an MFA from the Ver­mont Col­lege of Fine Arts. She is also the author of three suc­cess­ful children’s and young-adult series and works as the pub­lish­er of Philomel Books. San­topo­lo trav­els the world to speak about writ­ing and sto­ry­telling. She lives in New York City with her family.