Emily Henry

Emily Henry was born on May 17, 1991. She attended Lakota East High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, then Hope College on a creative writing scholarship with plans to study dance. She also completed a writing residency at the now-defunct New York Center for Art & Media Studies, part of Bethel University. She returned to Cincinnati after college; she currently lives and writes in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky's Ohio River region. As of 2016, she was a full-time writer and proofreader.

Henry's debut young adult novel, The Love That Split the World, was published in January 2016. After writing several young adult novels, her first adult romance novel, Beach Read, was published in 2020, to widespread success. Henry's books have been featured in BuzzFeed, O, The Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, The Skimm, and Shondaland.

Henry continued to write adult romance novels. People We Meet on Vacation was published in 2021. In October 2022, a film adaptation by Sony's 3000 Pictures from a screenplay by Yulin Kuang was announced, with Brett Haley directing and Temple Hill producing. On September 2024, it was announced that Tom Blyth and Emily Bader would play Alex and Poppy. Filming has begun, and the movie is set to come out in 2025.