An Italian speaking Brit living in the US, Hilary Hauck is the international bestselling, award-winning author of The Things We’ll Never Have, From Ashes to Song, and the Trevor Made Christmas Stories. She has been featured in Authority Magazine, the Historical Novels Review, and The Writing Cooperative. Hilary was raised in the UK and later lived in Italy, where she mastered the language, learned how to cook food she can no longer eat, and won a national karate championship. After meeting her husband, she came to the US and drew inspiration from Pennsylvania coal history for her debut novel, nominated for the WCoNA Book of the Year award in 2023. She lives on a small patch of woods in rural Pennsylvania with her husband and a cat with a passion for laundry.