Alyson Hagy was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She is the author of the novels Snow, Ashes, (Graywolf, 2007) and Keeneland (Simon and Schuster, 2000), and three books of short stories including Graveyard of the Atlantic, (Graywolf, 2000). She lives in Laramie and teaches in the University of Wyoming's Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing.