​I’m Susan Gregg Gilmore, and I write Southern stories steeped in grit, grace, and the complicated beauty of home. I was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, but it was the summers I spent with my revival-bred preacher grandfather On Old Hickory Lake that gave me my truest sense of place. We fished, chased lightning bugs, and tried our hand at growing the perfect tomato in that limestone-laced soil. He baptized people in the murky water behind the house, wearing his Keds and a white robe. And when storms rolled in, he’d pace the porch, rubbing his Bible and talking to the sky. I watched him, wide-eyed — and maybe that’s where I first learned to love the sacred in the everyday.

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Before I was an author, I raised three daughters and wrote articles for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. It was during our years living in Los Angeles — the longest I’ve ever been away from the South — that I poured my homesickness and heart into what would become my first novel, published in 2008.

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Since then, I’ve become a grandmother to three boys and launched a second career in real estate, all while continuing to write and stay rooted in the creative life. Whether through fiction or daily living, I’m still chasing stories that reveal the quiet strength of women, the weight of family, and the pull of home.

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I write for anyone who’s ever felt the ache of memory, the tug of their roots, or the urge to run from it all and come back anyway.

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Thanks for stopping by — I hope you’ll stay a while.