Juliet W. Ashwood grew up on the Kent coast and studied linguistics before moving to New England, where she worked as a court transcriber and archival assistant. Her years deciphering damaged audio and marginalia in small-town records inform her tightly wound, coastal-set suspense. She lives in Portland, Maine, with a retired search-and-rescue dog and volunteers as a lighthouse docent on weekends. Ashwood often writes about the intersections of memory, sound, and the secrets tucked into overlooked places.
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