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 for Short Fiction, The Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Idaho Book Award. Her writing has appeared in Zoetrope, One Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Lithub, The Paris Review, The Guardian, the New York Times, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Montana. She lives with her husband and two small daughters in the mountains west of Missoula.
