Gina Sorell returned to her first love—writing—after two decades of working as an actor. A graduate with distinction of the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, she is the author of The Wise Women (HarperCollins), and Mothers and Other Strangers. Her writing has appeared in Good Housekeeping, LitHub, Dame Magazine, Refinery29, and the Globe and Mail. Originally from Johannesburg, Gina has lived in New York and Los Angeles and now lives in Toronto with her family, where she balances the solitary hours of fiction writing with work as a brand storyteller under the banner of her own agency, Words Make The Brand.