Brunonia Barry is the New York Times and international bestselling author of The Lace Reader, The Map of True Places, and The Fifth Petal, which was published on January 24, 2017. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

Barry was the first American author to win the International Women’s Fiction Festival’s Baccante Award and was a past recipient of Ragdale Artists’ Colony’s Strnad Fellowship. She also won the New England Book Festival’s award for Best Fiction, was a People Magazine Pick, and an Amazon Best of the Month.

Her reviews and articles on writing have appeared in The London Times, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post. She is a regular contributor to Writer Unboxed.

Brunonia Barry was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and has a deep familial connection to the area, tracing her lineage back to early settlers involved in the Salem Witch Trials. She grew up on the Salem Harbor side of Marblehead, Massachusetts.

After moving away for college and living in various cities such as Dublin, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, she returned to Salem, where she now resides with her husband, Gary Ward, and their dog, Angel. Barry has served in various roles including chairperson of the Salem Athenaeum’s Writers’ Committee and Executive Director of the Salem Literary Festival.