Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer was born in Sri Lanka and lived in India, Thailand, Canada, and Australia before settling in the United States. She is the 2018 winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, and the 2004 winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and have appeared in many literary journals. This is her first novel. She is a psychology professor in New York and lives in New Jersey with her family.
