A.B. Westrick

A.B. Westrick is the daughter of southerners who sought to leave the South behind. Raised in Pennsylvania, she later moved with her husband to Virginia and spent hours walking Richmond’s brick streets, wondering how her ancestors had fared during and after the Civil War. Her debut novel, BROTHERHOOD(Viking, Sept. 2013). grew from those wonderings. She has been a teacher, paralegal, literacy volunteer, administrator, and coach for teams from Odyssey of the Mind to the Reading Olympics. A graduate of Stanford University and Yale Divinity School, she received an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2011. She and her family live in Virginia. Find her on Twitter.