Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, Dawn Tripp is the author of the novels MOON TIDE, THE SEASON OF OPEN WATER, and GAME OF SECRETS, a Boston Globe bestseller. Her essays have appeared on NPR and online at Psychology Today. She graduated from Harvard College and lives in Westport, Massachusetts with her family.
I write for the same reason I read: to free fall into a story and live in that world for a while. My novels begin in tiny glimmers—of character, story,…