About the Author

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Erin Bartels is the award-winning author of We Hope for Better Things, The Words between Us, All That We Carried, The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water, and Everything Is Just Beginning. A two-time Christy finalist and winner of two WFWA Star Awards as well as a 2020 Michigan Notable Book Award, Erin has been a publishing professional for over twenty years. An artist from a young age, Erin paints in watercolor and oil and spent much of 2022 painting one self-portrait a month (among other things). After eighteen years in Lansing, Michigan, Erin and her family are busy enjoying the simple blessings of a less urban life in a small town outside the capital city. Find her online at ErinBartels.com.