Lea Gillespie Gant is a children’s book author for Thomas Nelson Publishing, in Nashville, Tennessee, having written the picture book Never Say Goodbye. She has been published in Country Woman magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul’s 2020 Christmas edition, East of the Web, Deep South Magazine, Agape Review, Broadview magazine, and Kindred Spirits magazine (a tribute publication to the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery). Lea is a graduate of Blue Mountain College and currently lives with her family in Appalachia, in the shadow of Clinch Mountain. She is a lover of old photographs, beautiful summer gardens, and a really great chocolate pie.