Yannick Murphy is the author of the novels This Is the Water, The Call, Signed, Mata Hari, Here They Come, The Sea of Trees, and Things That Are Funny on a Submarine but Not Really. Her story collections include By the Time You Read This, Stories in Another Language, and In a Bear's Eye. She is the recipient of various awards, including a Pushcart Prize, a Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, a National Endowment for the Arts award, and a Chesterfield Screenwriting award.