Idaho (Ruskovich) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Raised—Hoodoo Mountain in Idaho
• Education—B.A., University of Montana; M.A., University of New Brunswick, Canada;
   M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Awards—O. Henry Award
• Currently—lives in Denver, Colorado.


Emily Ruskovich is an American author, whose debut novel, Idaho, was published in 2016 to wide acclaim. She grew up in the Hoodoo Mountains in the Panhandle of northern Idaho.

Ruskovich received her B.A. from the University of Montana, her M.A. in English from the University of New Brunswick and an M.F.A from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was the 2011–2012 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In 2015, she won an O. Henry Award for her story “Owl.” Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, One Story, and Virginia Quarterly Review.  Ruskovich currently teaches at the University of Colorado in Denver. (From the publisher.)