Peyton Marshall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and the recipient of a Maytag Fellowship and the Richard Yates Award for short fiction. Her story Bunnymoon was published in Best New American Voices 2004. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Tin House, A Public Space, Blackbird, Etiqueta Negra, and FiveChapters. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Goodhouse is her first novel.