April Genevieve Tucholke is the bestselling author of Merry and Hark, A Christmas Story (Algonquin 2023), The Secret Life of Secret Places (Workman 2023), Beatrice Likes the Dark (Algonquin, 2022), among others. Her books have been published in sixteen countries, and have received ten starred reviews. Tucholke currently lives in Savannah, Georgia.