Stacey Agdern is an award-win­ning for­mer book­seller who has reviewed romance nov­els in mul­ti­ple for­mats and giv­en talks about var­i­ous aspects of the romance genre. She incor­po­rates Jew­ish char­ac­ters and tra­di­tions into her sto­ries so that peo­ple who grew up like she did can see them­selves take cen­ter stage on the page. She lives in New York, not far from her favorite hock­ey team’s prac­tice facility.