Amy Willoughby-Burle is an award winning fiction author living in Asheville, NC with her husband and four children. Her fiction focuses on the importance of family and friends and centers on the themes of forgiveness, second chances, and finding the beauty in the world around us. She is the author of the novels The Lemonade Year and The Year of Thorns and Honey. Her short fiction has been published in numerous journals and in her collection, Out Across the Nowhere.