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Brooke Lea Foster is an award-winning author and journalist who has worked as a writer and editor at The Boston Globe Sunday MagazineThe Huffington Post/Aol and the Washingtonian magazine. She’s currently a contributing writer to Psychology Today magazine.

Her articles have appeared in The New York TimesThe AtlanticThe Washington Post MagazineGood HousekeepingParentsPARADE,  Scholastic Parent & ChildThe Baltimore SunThe Boston GlobePsychology Today, among many others.

Her debut novel, Summer Darlings, was featured as top summer read in People Magazine, named a top summer pick by Entertainment Weekly and named one of PARADE’s best books of summer. An alumna of The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, she is the author of three nonfiction books. On Gin Lane is her second novel.