Courtney McLean Thompson spent the last decade in a town you won’t find on a map and befriending people who aren’t in the public record.

She listened to them, learned from them, grieved and hoped with them, and wrote their story in her debut novel, Nobody Wants to Remember.

Courtney began writing as an act of protest to showcase the systemic and abiding wounds of our common life while also casting a vision for how we might heal the communities we share.

When she isn’t writing, Courtney (along with her husband) can be found in Virginia raising four real characters and daydreaming about her fictional ones.

She holds degrees in Journalism and Theology.