The Immigrant's Wife

JB Harris lives in Massachusetts with her husband, three almost grown children, and two rescue dogs. Formerly a published short story writer, her award-winning debut novel, The Immigrant's Wife, was published by Sunbury Press in 2023 and has just been released as an audio book narrated by the award winning Julia Whelan. With an MFA from Emerson College, JB went on to teach fiction at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and has attended the Ploughshares Annual International Seminar, Breadloaf Writers Conference in Middlebury Vermont, and the Grub Street Master Novel in Progress program. She recently won a Sunny award for highest sales in her imprint, and is currently working on her third novel.

Dubbed "The Adele of Audiobooks" by The New Yorker, Julia Whelan is an author, screenwriter, lifelong actor, and acclaimed audiobook narrator of over 700 titles. Her performance of her own debut novel, the international bestseller My Oxford Year, released August 2025 on Netflix, garnered a Society of Voice Arts award. Her 2022 novel, Thank You For Listening, was a Best-of-the-Year pick at Amazon, Audible, and NPR as well as a Goodreads Choice Award nominee and winner of the Golden Poppy. Her latest novel, Casanova LLC, was nominated for an Audie and will be coming out in a special print edition. She is the founder of Audiobrary, an audio publishing company and app. While the books in the Audiobrary collection are available wide, many of them contain bonus material only found on Audiobrary. She is also a Grammy-nominated audiobook director, a former writing tutor, a half-decent amateur baker, and a certified tea sommelier.