Emily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota. Her first novel, History of Wolves, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Dublin IMPAC Prize, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. It won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.
Fridlund’s debut collection of stories, Catapult, won the Mary McCarthy Prize. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, ZYZZYVA, Southwest Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives with her family in the Finger Lakes region of New York and teaches at Cornell University.