Kira Henehan was born in New York and grew up in various locales around the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. Her work has been published in Fence, jubilat, Chelsea, Conjunctions, and Denver Quarterly, among others, and has received a Pushcart Prize and been included in the A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years anthology. She attended San Francisco State University and Columbia University, and lives in New York City. This is her first novel.