"When the Stars Were All I Had" Author Hilary Hauck on the Brown Posey Press Show

Hilary Hauck has created detailed, researched, and yet thoughtful novels that take the reader to parts of the world they may have only read about or seen in films. She has firsthand experience; self-described as an "Italian-speaking Brit living in the US," Hilary has traveled throughout the world and lived in Italy for twelve years. Her writing encompasses historical fiction, adventure, and defining moments with characters who struggle to find "their inner amazing."

When the Stars Were All I Had, on Olive Rose Press, is a collection of short stories, with the title tale one of loneliness and uncertainty during war. Others include real people from Hilary's time ("Saving Red"), and in "The Cookie Table," we are reunited with old friends from another of Hauck's works.

From Ashes to Song tells of Italian immigrants who find their way to Coal Country in Pennsylvania, and was a WCoNA Book of the Year Nominee. The Things We'll Never Have, which follows a woman's journey to Italy to find her missing fiancé, earned the HFC Award of Excellence and was an Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist.

A translator and localization specialist, Hilary Hauck studied at City, University of London, and holds the Chartered Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation. She lives somewhere in Northwest Pennsylvania with her husband and dog, Phineas.