Ashley Winstead

Ashley Winstead is an American author of romantic comedy and thriller fiction. She holds a PhD in Contemporary American Fiction from Southern Methodist University and her academic background informs the intelligence of her genre fiction. The Boyfriend Candidate is a romantic comedy about a woman who fake-dates a Texas gubernatorial candidate, blending political satire with swoon-worthy romance. Winstead has also written thrillers including In My Dreams I Hold a Knife. Her fiction is characterised by its sharp intelligence and its ability to work across genres with equal skill. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers clever, entertaining fiction that moves deftly between romance and thriller — stories written with academic smarts and genre-fiction heart.