Cori Wamsley is the award-winning author of the Soul Sisterhood series, best friend stories with a side of sweet romance. Her books are enchanting and witty women’s fiction, woven with the magic of self-discovery, history, adventure, and falling in love. She has written eleven books, including her latest, Good in Theory (2025), the third in the Soul Sisterhood series, which won a The BookFest Award for excellence in fiction in 2025. Her books Braving the Shore and The Treasures We Seek were lauded with The Author Zone Awards for excellence in fiction in 2023 and 2024, respectively. Her twelfth book, Ashes and Other Inheritances, will be released in March of 2026.

Aside from writing books, Cori also runs a small publishing house, Aurora Corialis Publishing, where she helps authors write and publish their personal stories of overcoming, as well as some fiction. She holds a master’s and bachelor’s in English literature and a bachelor’s in biology from West Virginia University.

Cori lives in Pittsburgh, PA, US, with her husband and two creative tween daughters. When she’s not at her desk, she loves painting, crafting, playing piano, singing and dancing as part of The Basement Players, reading sweet romance, and dreaming about traveling to Europe. 

Connect with Cori at www.coriwamsley.com or on Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok.