Yannick Murphy is author of the novels The Call, Signed, Mata Hari, This Is the Water,Here They Come, and The Sea of Trees. Her story collections include Stories in Another Language and In a Bear’s Eye. She is recipient of various awards including a Pushcart Prize, a Laurence L. and Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, a National Endowment for the Arts award, and a Chesterfield Screenwriting award. Her story In a Bear’s Eye was published in the 2007 The O. Henry Prize Stories.