Kathleen Boland is a graduate of Louisiana State University's MFA program, where she was the editorial assistant for The Southern Review and awarded the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award.  Supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center, her fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, Tin House, and elsewhere. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Viking, and she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.