CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the author of ten novels, including Before You Know Kindness, The Buffalo Soldier, and Trans-Sister Radio. His novel Midwives was a Publisher’s Weekly “Best Book” and a selection of Oprah’s Book Club. His work has been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-one countries. In 2002, he won the New England Book Award for fiction. He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.