EMILY RUSKOVICH's critically acclaimed first novel, Idaho, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and won the Dublin Literary Award. A winner of a 2015 O. Henry Award and a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, her writing has appeared in publications including the Paris Review, the Guardian, Zoetrope and One Story. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana, where she teaches fiction. She grew up in the Idaho panhandle, and lives in the mountains of western Montana with her husband and their three small children. Nightjar is her second book.
