Jill Caugherty is the author of The View from Half Dome, winner of the 2023 NC Indie Author Project, YA Fiction and winner of the 2023 IPPY Bronze Award for Best Regional Fiction, Pacific West. Her debut novel,Waltz in Swing Time, was published in 2020. Her fiction features courageous women and focuses on classism and income inequality.

A Stanford University graduate, Jill is a former senior product manager and has an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers’ Association and the North Carolina Writers’ Network. Jill lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband and daughter.