Alix Ohlin was born in Montreal in 1972, graduated from Harvard University, and studied at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. Her fiction has appeared in the "One Story" series and "Shenandoah," among other periodicals, and in" Best New American Voices 2004." She has received awards and fellowships from "The Atlantic Monthly, "the MacDowell Colony, and "The Kenyon Review"'s" "Writers Workshop. She lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Lafayette College.