Nancy Tilly’s early years in deep South Atlanta received welcome corrections from the University of North Carolina and a ten-year exile in  Chicago where she taught college kids. Marriage to Eben Tilly took her back to Chapel Hill and a writing life. Her novel Golden Girl, from FSG, won a prize. Tilly’s memoir Rebel Belle: The Making of a Narcissist is available on Amazon. She retired to Colorado. Her young adult novel, The Island Summer, we be release in spring 2021.