Biography
Official author bio
Maggie B. Bailey lives on Florida's Forgotten Coast, which suits her fine. She has always preferred the quieter stretches of things.
She shares her home with her husband and Biscuit, a Goldendoodle who considers himself the emotional center of the household and is probably right. She has children and grandchildren who visit often, which Biscuit considers a personal triumph.
She did not set out to write a novel about a woman disappearing into her own life. She set out to write something else entirely, and then Mara showed up and refused to leave — which, given the title, feels appropriate.
Without Leaving is her debut novel and the first book from Lost Press Publishing, the small press she founded because she had opinions about how this story should exist in the world and not enough patience for the alternative.
She is interested in women who have been quietly remarkable for years without anyone particularly noticing — including, sometimes, themselves. She writes about the long middle of a life because she thinks it's where most of the interesting things actually happen, and because not enough people are paying attention to it.
She lives in the American South, drinks too much coffee, and is already arguing with her next book.
