Elin Hilderbrand — American Writer

Elin Hilderbrand is an American writer of Summer beach read romance novels. Hilderbrand's novels have all been set on and around Nantucket Island where she lives with three children. She was born and raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and was previously a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop... (wikipedia)

I am a summer person.
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.