American author Holly Goddard Jones released her first collection of short stories in 2009 and was the 2007 recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.

Stories from the collection were published in various journals including Best American Mystery Stories 2008 and The Gettysberg Review. Her highly anticipated first novel, The Next Time You See Me, has received a wealth of pre-publication praise from authors such as Kate Atkinson and Gillian Flynn, and is set for UK release this summer.