Elin Hilderbrand is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Swan Song is her twenty-seventh—and final—Nantucket-based novel.  Hilderbrand is currently writing the first of two novels with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham, set at a New England boarding school. Hilderbrand is the co-host of the podcast "Books, Beach and Beyond" along with @TimTalksBooks creator, Tim Ehrenberg.  She is raising four young adult children and likes to spend her free time at the beach and on her Peloton.  She's a grateful ten-year breast cancer survivor.