Monica Ferrell was born in 1975 in New Delhi, India. A former “Discovery”/The Nation prizewinner and Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is currently an assistant professor in the creative writing program at Purchase College. Her poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Tin House, Fence, and Boston Review, among other magazines. Her first novel, The Answer Is Always Yes, was published by The Dial Press in 2008.