The early decades of the twenty-first century saw a growing appetite for romance and young adult fiction, with both genres drawing large and dedicated readerships across the English-speaking world. Colleen Hoover, born on December 11, 1979, in Sulphur Springs, is an American author who has built her career within those two genres.

Hoover was educated at East Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M University Commerce School of Social Work. She works as a novelist, writer, and children's writer, producing fiction primarily in English. Her work sits within the romance and young adult fiction genres, two closely related traditions that share an emphasis on personal relationships and accessible storytelling.

Her notable works include It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us, and Verity. These titles represent the range of fiction she has produced as a novelist working in popular genre literature. All three have been associated with her name as a writer whose output spans more than one corner of contemporary fiction.

It Ends with Us stands as a particularly prominent title among her works and is the novel most frequently cited in connection with her name. That a novelist writing in romance and young adult fiction has produced a work of such recognizable standing reflects the reception her fiction has found among readers of those genres.