Courtney Gould writes books about girls, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night. Her debut novel, THE DEAD AND THE DARK, came out Summer 2021 from Wednesday Books and won the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Fiction. Her second novel, WHERE ECHOES DIE, hit shelves on June 20th, 2023 and her next YA novel, WHAT THE WOODS TOOK, is forthcoming in Fall 2024. Her writing is featured in Indie Bestselling anthology THE GATHERING DARK and in the forthcoming THE HOUSE WHERE DEATH LIVES.

She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 2016 with a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing, Publishing, and Marketing. She now lives in Salem, OR where she continues to write love letters to small towns and haunted places.