Henry attended high school in
Cincinnati,
Ohio then
Hope College on a creative writing scholarship with plans to study dance.[1] She also completed a writing residency at the now-defunct New York Center for Art & Media Studies, part of
Bethel University.[2] She returned to Cincinnati after college; she currently lives and writes in Cincinnati and
Kentucky's Northern
Ohio River region. She is a full-time writer and proofreader.[3]
Writing career
Her debut
young adult novel, The Love That Split the World, was published in January 2016.[4][5] After writing several young adult novels, Henry's first adult romance novel, Beach Read, was published in 2020 to widespread success.[6] Henry's books have been featured in
BuzzFeed, O, The Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times,
The Skimm,
Shondaland, and more. After Beach Read, Henry continued to write adult romance novels. People We Meet on Vacation was published in 2021. In October 2022, a film adaptation of People We Meet on Vacation by Sony's
3000 Pictures from a screenplay by Yulin Kuang was announced, with
Brett Haley directing and
Temple Hill producing.[7] On April 5, 2023, it was announced that Kuang would also write and direct a film adaptation of Beach Read for
20th Century.[8]
Book Lovers was published in 2022. On March 28, 2023, a film adaptation of Book Lovers by the production company
Tango was announced, with
Sarah Heyward attached to write the script.[9]
Happy Place was published in 2023.[10] As of March 2023, Henry had sold more than 2.4 million books collectively.[11] Writing for Vulture in 2023, Allison P. Davis described Henry's books as containing elements of the
rom-com and
chick lit genres and focusing on themes of "respect" as well as love.[11]