Taylor Hale was born in Southwestern Ontario in 1994, eventually finding her way to the Wattpad fiction app in 2015, where she has since amassed over twenty-four thousand followers and six million views. Her debut novel, THE SUMMER I DROWNED, a YA romantic thriller, was published in North America and sold to Penguin Random House in the UK in 2020. It has since been named one of the Ontario Library Association’s top ten YA reads of 2020. Follow her on Twitter @taylorhwrites or Instagram @taylorrhale