Meet the characters written by Jessa Hastings. Hastings is an Australian native who now lives in Tennessee with her husband; two children; her beautiful, clingy dog; and two cats-which is one more than the last time she wrote one of these. She spends a lot of her time in London, which is still her favorite city in the world. Other current favorites are Bluey, Jenni Kayne cardigans, Galaxy Minstrels, and Gracie Abrams's "The Secret of Us" album. Magnolia Parks was her debut novel and is the series that changed her life and made way for all this. She is very grateful.