Emily Ruskovich

Emily Ruskovich is an American fiction writer best known for her debut novel Idaho (2017), which won the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award, the 2018 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Idaho Book Award, and was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and New York Times Editor's Choice. website. She also received the 2015 O. Henry Award for her short story "Owl" and grew up in the Idaho Panhandle, graduating from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2011; she currently teaches creative writing at the University of Montana.