Emily Ruskovich grew up in the Idaho Panhandle, on Hoodoo mountain. A winner of a 2015 O. Henry Award and a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, her critically acclaimed first novel, Idaho, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, won the Dublin Literary Award and has been optioned as a film by the actress Elisabeth Moss.
She is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana, where she teaches in the MFA programme. She lives in the mountains of western Montana with her husband and their three small children.
