Carley Fortune

Carley Fortune (born February 7, 1984) is a Canadian writer from Toronto, Ontario, most noted for her 2022 and 2023 novels Every Summer After and Meet Me at the Lake.

As a journalist, she has been a contributor and editor for Refinery29, The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, and Toronto Life. She published her debut novel Every Summer After in 2022. Meet Me at the Lake followed in 2023; the book made the bestseller lists in both Canada and the United States, and attracted widespread press when it was optioned by Archewell for development as a film.

Meet Me at the Lake was selected for the 2024 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Mirian Njoh. In August 2024, her follow-up novel This Summer will be Different, a romance set in Prince Edward Island, topped the Canadian fiction bestseller list. In 2025, she published One Golden Summer. In 2026, she published Our Perfect Storm.

In 2024, Amazon Prime Video announced an adapation of Fortune's Every Summer After. The series, Every Year After, premiered on June 10, 2026.