By two years old, Edelweiss was my lullaby in Schweinfurt, Germany, and so my gypsy life began. Being an Army brat, I didn’t stay in the Bluegrass State long enough to wear a Derby hat or sip the whiskey. I was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky, the daughter of an Army officer from Oklahoma and a Puerto Rican elementary school teacher. Brian Waterman, their dog Gilbert and cat Tularosa in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she is working on her next novel. After a decade in El Paso, Texas, she now lives with her husband, Dr. The daughter of an Army officer, her family was stationed in Germany during her childhood. Sarah taught English writing at Old Dominion University and at the University of Texas at El Paso. She was the host of the NPR WSNC Radio monthly program “Bookmarked with Sarah McCoy” from 2018-2019 and a Board Member for the literary nonprofit Bookmarks from 2018-2021.

Her work has been featured in Newsweek, Real Simple, The Millions, Literary Hub, Writer’s Digest, Huffington Post, Read It Forward, Writer Unboxed, and other publications. SARAH McCOY is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of the novels Mustique Island, Marilla of Green Gables, The Mapmaker’s C hildren, The Baker’s Daughter, a 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Best Historical Fiction nominee, the novella “The Branch of Hazel” in Grand Central, The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico, and Le souffle des feuilles et des promesses( Pride and Providence).

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