Lynne Hugo is an American author whose roots are in New England. A National Endowment For the Arts Fellowship recipient, she has also received repeat individual artist grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her publications include thirteen novels as well as a memoir, Where the Trail Grows Faint: A Year In the Life of A Therapy Dog Team which won the Riverteeth Creative Nonfiction Book Prize. Her latest novels are The Language of Kin (7/2023), A Matter of Mercy, 10th Anniversary Edition (8/2024), and MOTHERS OF FATE (4/22/25).