Emily Ruskovich grew up in the Idaho Panhandle, on Hoodoo mountain. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, One Story and the Virginia Quarterly Review. A winner of a 2015 O. Henry Award and a graduate of the Iowa Writer¿s Workshop, she now teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado, Denver. Idaho is her first novel.

Emily Ruskovich grew up in the Idaho Panhandle, on Hoodoo mountain. A winner of a 2015 O. Henry Award and a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, she is an assistant professor at the University of Montana.

Her critically acclaimed first novel, Idaho, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, won the Dublin Literary Award and has been optioned as a film by the actress Elisabeth Moss. She lives with her husband and two small daughters in the mountains west of Missoula.