Megan Kruse grew up in the Pacific Northwest and earned her MFA at the University of Montana. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, and her debut novel, Call Me Home, was published by Hawthorne Books in 2015. She was the recipient of a 2005 Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship, a 2016 PNBA Award, and one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35. She teaches fiction for Eastern Oregon University’s Low-Residency MFA program and currently lives in Olympia.