Lily King is the author of the novels The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, Father of the Rain, and, most recently, Euphoria. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, The Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the Maine Fiction Award, and the New England Book Award for Fiction, and her short fiction and nonfiction work has appeared in Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.