A woman standing outdoors in a natural landscape with hills and cloudy skies, wearing a blue jacket and a maroon shirt.

A collage featuring a cracked gray concrete surface with a yellow flowering plant, a torn piece of paper with "Hello" written on it, and a blue-toned drawing of two black birds perched on a wooden post.

H.D. Carver grew up in North Texas, a reluctant reader who didn’t fall in love with books until she was eighteen, when her senior English teacher reached out with the right one. She now lives outside Los Angeles in the wildland-urban interface with her family of artists. When she isn’t writing, she can be found wandering trails, bookstores, or the stacks at her local library, always in search of the magic that comes from getting lost—either in a book or in nature.