Michelle Shocklee is the author of several historical novels, including All We Thought We Knew, the 2025 Christy Award Book of the Year; Count the Nights by Stars, a Christianity Today Book Awards winner; and Under the Tulip Tree, a Christy and Selah Awards finalist. Married to her college sweetheart, she is the mother of two grown sons and two lovely daughters-in-law. She and her husband live in Tennessee, not far from the historical sites she writes about.