Lucy Ferriss's fiction collection, Foreign Climes, won the Brighthorse Books Award in 2021. Her most recent novel is A Sister to Honor (Penguin, 2015). Her 2012 book, The Lost Daughter, was a Book-of-the-Month pick, while her memoir, Unveiling the Prophet, was named Best Book of the Year by the Riverfront Times. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The American Scholar, December, Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, and Novel Slices and have received recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Faulkner Society, the Fulbright Commission, and the International Society for Narrative, among others. Lucy received her Ph.D. from Tufts University and lives with her husband in the Berkshires and in Connecticut, where she is Writer-in-Residence Emerita at Trinity College.