Born and raised in New York, Yannick Murphy has an MA from New York University. She is the author of several novels for adults as well as short story collections and books for children. Her writing has won many prestigious awards, and she has talked about her work on radio, television and in person across the USA and Canada. She lives in Vermont. You can visit her website at www.yannickmurphy.com.
Yannick Murphy, while being one of our most daring and original writers, is first and foremost an exquisitely attuned observer of human behaviour Dave Eggers Magical and harrowing Publishers Weekly (on HERE THEY COME) A wonderful novel. Original, suspenseful, funny and profoundly moving... I plan to recommend it to everyone I know Geraldine Brooks (on THE CALL) A hell of a book... It will haunt you Frank McCourt