Yannick Murphy is the author of the novels, The Call, Signed, Mata Hari, Here They Come, and The Sea of Trees. Her story collections include By the Time You Read This, Stories in Another Language, and In a Bear's Eye. Her children's books include The Cold Water Witch, Baby Polar, and Ahwoooooooo!. She is the recipient of various awards, including a Pushcart Prize, a Laurence L. and Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, a National Endowment for the Arts award, and a Chesterfield Screenwriting award. Her story "In a Bear's Eye" was published in the 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories. She and her veterinarian husband live in Vermont.