Carolyn Dasher writes about overlooked and underestimated women. Her fiction explores how loyalty and competition undergird female friendship and mother-daughter relationships, and how women navigate the tension between authenticity and belonging. Her debut historical novel, AMERICAN SKY (Lake Union, 2025), was an Amazon best seller. Her short fiction has appeared in Terrain.org and Sunspot Literary Journal. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she’s hard at work on her next novel.