Holly Hill Mangin is an English literature teacher at an international school in the south of France, a freelance copy editor at Fresh as a Daisy Editing, and the author of her first independent novel The House on the Lake, a gold medal winner in the 2021 Wishing Shelf Book Awards and a finalist for the 2021 American Fiction Awards. The House on the Lake has also been translated into French. Always ready to laugh, Holly can be serious when the need calls for it. She lives with her husband and their two kids a stone’s throw away from the French Riviera, and she finds that reading and writing go a long way in procrastinating learning French.