Harriet Scott Chessman is the author of three acclaimed novels: Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, published in eight foreign countries, and a #1 Booksense Pick; Someone Not Really Her Mother, a Good Morning America book club choice and one of the San Francisco Chronicle's Best Books; and Ohio Angels, her first novel, which has been called "poetic and moving," "a lyrical debut.”

Harriet is also a poet and a writer of short stories and children’s stories, a manuscript consultant and editor, a dog-and-cat-lover, a teacher, a sociable hermit, a mother, a laundry-doer, a dreamer, an aficionado of art and theater, and of course, a reader.