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Connie Brockway

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Connie was born on 16 December 1954 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA but spent several years in suburban Buffalo, New York. Her family returned to Edina, Minnesota where she attended high school. In 1976, Brockway received a B.A. from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, she earned an M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota. In the University she met her future husband, David Brockway, medical student, now a family physician, and they married on November 1976. The couple currently live in her native Minnesota, they have a grown daughter. Connie decided to take a year and try to write a book once her daughter entered school. In 1994, she published her first book, Promise Me Heaven. Over 1.5 million copies of her books are now in print, and they can be found in thirteen countries. Brockway has been a finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award eight times, winning twice. Although Brockway made her mark with historical romance, in 2005 she announced that she would take a hiatus from historical romance and begin writing contemporary romance novels.