Emily Barton is the author of Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron, which were both selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Her essays, short stories, and reviews have appeared in Story, Conjunctions, the Massachusetts Review, Tablet, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times Book Review, among many other publications. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and sons.