Kathleen Boland is the author of the debut novel Scavengers, forthcoming from Viking. She 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. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.