Rachel Hawkins - Southern Voices 2022

Born in Virginia and raised in Alabama, Rachel Hawkins is The New York Times best-selling author of multiple books for teens, most notably the Hex Hall series. Her first adult novel, The Wife Upstairs, a reimagining of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre set in modern-day Birmingham, Alabama, was an Amazon.com Editor’s pick. The Southern Review of Books places Hawkins’ The Wife Upstairs “definitively within the contemporary female-centered domestic noir thrillers such as Liane Moriarty, Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins and A. J. Finn” while also evoking “gothic tales like Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.” A former high school English teacher, Hawkins is a graduate of Auburn University and lives with her family in Alabama. Her latest novel, Reckless Girls, will be released in 2022.