Renee Swindle is the author of A Pinch Of Ooh La La, Shake Down The Stars, and Please Please Please (Dial/Dell), which was a #1 Blackboard Bestseller, a Literary Guild Alternate Selection, and was excerpted in Essence. Her most recent novel, Francine’s Spectacular Crash and Burn (Tiny Reparations Books) is a 2025 Spring/Summer Publisher’s Weekly Buzz Book pick.

She lives in Oakland, California.