Hope Gibbs grew up in rural Scottsville, Kentucky. As the daughter of an English teacher, she was raised to value the importance of good storytelling from an early age. Today, she’s an avid reader of women’s fiction. Drawn to multigenerational family sagas, relationship issues, and the complexities of being a woman, she translates those themes into her own writing.

Hope lives in Tennessee with her husband, five children, and her persnickety shih tzu, Harley. When she’s not on the sidelines, cheering on her family in their various sports, she’s on the tennis court, pursuing her own athletic dreams. In her downtime, she loves poring over old church cookbooks, such as the ones from her hometown, singing karaoke, curling up on her favorite chair with a book, and playing board games, especially Trivial Pursuit, if she can find someone up to the task.