Erica Wright's essay collection Snake was recently released as part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. Her latest crime novel Famous in Cedarville received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. She is the author of three previous novels including The Red Chameleon, which was one of O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Books of Summer 2014. Her poetry collections are Instructions for Killing the Jackal and All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She was the senior poetry editor at Guernica Magazine for more than a decade. Currently, she teaches at Bellevue University and runs her own novel writing group. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her family.

"...a clever little whodunnit."—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review