In Your Next Beach Read, we want to introduce you to a new author every day in June in the hopes that you’ll find the next book you want to take with you to the beach, the pool, or the comforts of air conditioning.

Today’s author is Nicole Callihan, author of The Couples.

What’s your name (or pen name) and where are you from?

Nicole Callihan. I was born Hefner, in North Carolina. Moved around a lot growing up. Went to high school and college in Oklahoma. Now, I’m in Brooklyn, New York, where I’ve been since the mid-1990s.

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

I started writing when I was fourteen, then really writing when I was twenty-one, then really, really writing when I was thirty-eight. Now, sometimes, I even revise. I started because I wanted to say all the things on paper that…