Adrienne Celt is an award-winning American author and journalist. She is best known for her debut novel, The Daughters, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. Celt has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. Celt is passionate about exploring the complexities of family relationships and the power of storytelling. Her work has been praised for its vivid characters and lyrical prose. She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and two children.