Biographical Info CAROL VAN DEN HENDE is an award-winning author who pens stories of resilience and hope. Her novel Goodbye, Orchid is inspired by combat-wounded veterans and won the 2020 American Fiction Award for urban fiction, IAN Outstanding Fiction Award for Best First Novel, Audiobook Reviewer Award for New Author of the Year, a Royal Dragonfly for disability awareness, and a dozen other recognitions. Buzzfeed, Parade, and Travel+Leisure named this "heartbreaking, heartwarming" novel one of their most anticipated reads. Glamour Magazine recommended Goodbye, Orchid as "a modern, important take on the power of love." The world’s largest book club, The International Pulpwood Queens, selected Goodbye, Orchid as a 2022 Book-of-the-Month.