Michelle Richmond is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels and two award-winning story collections. Her books include the 2017 psychological thriller The Marriage Pact, which has been sold in 30 languages and was a Sunday Times bestseller in the UK; Golden State, the critically acclaimed novel that imagines modern-day California on the brink of secession from the United States; the international bestseller The Year Of Fog; and the story collection Hum, winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. Her novels are set in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives, and in the South, where she grew up. Michelle was born and raised in Alabama and has made her home for eighteen years in Northern California, where she lives with her husband and son.