Credit: Katy Weaver

Kathleen Boland is the author of the debut novel, Scavengers, forthcoming from Viking. Her fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, Tin House, and elsewhere, and she has received support from the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. She earned her MFA from Louisiana State University, where she received the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.