Mary Sullivan is the author of Dear Blue Sky, which won the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Award. Her other novels include Stay and Ship Sooner, and she has ghostwritten for the Beacon Street Girls series. She is the also the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a St. Botolph's Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her family and teaches at Harvard Extension and Summer School.