Johanna Skibsrud’s most recent book is the novel, Quartet for the End of Time (Norton 2014). She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arizona. Along with her husband, John Melillo, and their daughter, Olive, she divides her time between Tucson and Cape Breton, Canada. A new collection of poetry, The Description of the World, is forthcoming from Wolsak and Wynn in 2016.