Sigrid Nunez is the author of several novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, a finalist for both the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award; Naked Sleeper; and The Last of Her Kind. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including two Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian American literature. Sigrid has taught at Amherst College, Smith College, Columbia University, and the New School, and she has been a visiting writer at Washington University, Baruch College, and the University of California, Irvine. She lives in New York City.