Carley Fortune is the #1 New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of One Golden Summer, This Summer Will Be Different, Meet Me at the Lake, and Every Summer After. Her books have sold more than three-million copies worldwide and have been translated into 30 languages in over 50 territories. Her fifth novel, Our Perfect Storm, comes out May 5, 2026.

Carley is an award-winning journalist and worked as an editor at some of Canada’s top publications, including The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, and Toronto Life. She oversaw the launch of Refinery29 Canada and led the team as its Executive Editor until she left journalism to write fiction in 2021. Carley holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. 

Carley spent her young life in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, and in Barry’s Bay, a tiny lakeside town in rural Ontario and the setting for both Every Summer After and One Golden Summer. A love of nature and sense of place are integral to her storytelling.

Carley lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons and is currently working on her sixth book.

Photograph of Carley by Jenna Marie Wakani.