Emily Ruskovich grew up in the Idaho Panhandle on Hoodoo Mountain. In 2019, she became the fourth American ever to win the Dublin International Literary Award for her debut novel, IDAHO. IDAHO has been translated into a dozen languages and has been optioned for a film by actress Elisabeth Moss. Emily has also won an O. Henry Award, The Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Idaho Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Guardian, The New York Times, Zoetrope, One Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana, where she leads the Fiction MFA program. She lives with her husband and three small children, two daughters and a son, in the mountains west of Missoula. Her second book, NIGHTJAR, a collection of stories, is forthcoming from Random House in 2026.