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Author Bio
Birth—N/A
Where—Pacific Northwest, USA
Education—University of Washington
Currently—lives in Seattle, Washington


Heather Barbieri is half-Irish. Her paternal ancestors left counties Donegal and Tipperary after The Great Famine and worked in the coal mines of Eastern Pennsylvania before settling in Butte, Montana. Her impeccably dressed maternal grandmother was a descendant of a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria and instilled an avid interest in fashion in her granddaughters.

Barbieri’s first novel, Snow in July (2004, Soho Press), was selected as a Book Sense Pick, a Glamour magazine “Riveting Read,” and a Library Journal Notable First Novel. Before turning to writing fiction full-time, she was a magazine editor, journalist, and film critic.

She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and three children, and is currently working on her third novel. (From the publisher.)