Kathryn Davis is also the author of the novels Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell, and The Walking Tour. She has received a Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and lives in Vermont and New York with her husband and their daughter.