Roberta Gately

Roberta Gately is a nurse, aid worker and author, who lives in Boston where she works at a busy inner-city hospital. She has written for several nursing journals including The Journal of Emergency Nursing as well as a series of articles for the BBC World News Online and the Huffington Post. She speaks regularly on nursing issues and the plight of the world’s refugees and displaced. She has appeared both locally and nationally on TV and radio programs to discuss her novels.

The author of Lipstick in Afghanistan and The Bracelet (published by Gallery/Simon & Schuster), both were based upon her experiences in Afghanistan. Her memoir – Footprints in The Dust (published by Pegasus Books) was released in 2018 and Roberta’s nurse/detective series included Dead Girl Walking, The Frozen Girl and Her Mother’s Cry.