Mary Strand

Mary Strand practiced corporate law in a large Minneapolis law firm for 16 years until the day she set aside her pointy-toed shoes (or most of them) and escaped the land of mergers and acquisitions to write novels. The first novel she wrote, Cooper’s Folly, won Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart award. Published by Bell Bridge Books in January 2014, Cooper's Folly was also her debut novel. Her four-book YA series, The Bennet Sisters, starting with Pride, Prejudice, and Push-Up Bras, is out now.\n\nMary lives on a lake in Minneapolis with her husband, two cute kidlets, and a stuffed monkey named Philip. When not writing, she loves traveling, dancing badly to live music, playing guitar (also badly), writing songs, and playing sports with reckless abandon and a high probability of injury to herself and others.\n\nMary writes YA, romantic comedy, and women’s fiction novels. You can sign up for her newsletter (and learn more about her) at www.marystrand.com, follow her on Twitter or Instagram (@Mary_Strand), or “like” her on Facebook (www.facebook.com/marystrandauthor).\n