Emily Ruskovich is the author of the bestselling novel Idaho, which won the International Dublin Literary Award, only the fourth American novel ever to do so. Ruskovich is also the recipient of the Pacific Northwest Book Award and an O. Henry Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Guardian, One Story, Zoetrope, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in the Idaho panhandle, and lives now in the mountains of western Montana with her husband and their three young children. Nightjar is her second book.
