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Emily Ruskovich

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Emily Ruskovich
upright=Emily Ruskovich 2019 Winner in the Round Room at the Mansion House, Dublin
OccupationWriter
Novelist
University teacher
LanguageEnglish
Alma materIowa Writers' Workshop
Notable awardsDublin Literary Award (2019)

Emily Ruskovich (/ˈrʌskəvɪtʃ/ RUSS-kə-vitch[1]) is an American writer who won the 2019 International Dublin literary award for her novel Idaho.[2] She grew up in the Idaho Panhandle on Hoodoo Mountain.[3]

She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2011 and is an assistant professor at the University of Montana where she teaches creative writing; she was formerly on the faculty of Boise State University. She lives in the mountains west of Missoula, Montana.[4][5]

Career

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Writer

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Ruskovich's short fiction has appeared in literary journals including Zoetrope, One Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Paris Review, The New York Times, and LitHub. In 2015, she won the O. Henry Award for her short story "Owl".[6]

Her debut novel Idaho, published by Random House in January 2017, became a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a New York Times Editor's Choice. The novel was also selected as a Barnes & Noble Great New Writers Selection and an Amazon Book of the Month.[7]

Teacher

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Ruskovich served as the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2011 to 2012.[8] She has taught creative writing at the University of Colorado in Denver.[9] From 2017 to 2021, she was an assistant professor in the MFA program in creative writing at Boise State University.[10] She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Montana, having joined the faculty in the fall of 2021.[11]

Bibliography

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Novel

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Short story

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  • Owl (2014)
  • What Liesel Thinks of Horses[12] (2014)

Work included in anthology

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  • The O. Henry Prize stories, 2015 (2015)

Awards

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Personal Life

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Ruskovich lives in the mountains of western Montana with her husband Sam McPhee and their three children.[16][17]

References

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  1. ^ "Emily Ruskovich International Dylan Thomas Prize Reading". YouTube. 20 May 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  2. ^ Flood, A. "'My life completely changed': debut wins world's richest prize for a novel". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  3. ^ "About the Author". Emily Ruskovich. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  4. ^ Doyle, Martin (12 June 2019). "Debut US author Emily Ruskovich (33) wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award". The Irish Times.
  5. ^ B., Kustra (5 July 2019). "Real Life Influences Fiction In Emily Ruskovich's "Idaho"". Boise State Public Radio.
  6. ^ a b "The O. Henry Prize Stories for 2015". Literary Hub. 2015-05-21. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  7. ^ "IDAHO". Emily Ruskovich. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  8. ^ fable.co https://fable.co/author/emily-ruskovich. Retrieved 2025-11-04. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ^ Partners, Outlaw (2017-04-21). "Emily Ruskovich: Rising star | Explore Big Sky". Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  10. ^ News, Boise State; Webb, Anna (2019-06-12). "Emily Ruskovich Wins 2019 International Dublin Literary Award". Boise State News. Retrieved 2025-11-04. {{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  11. ^ "Professor Spotlight: Emily Ruskovich". www.umt.edu. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  12. ^ "Project MUSE -- Verification required!". muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  13. ^ "2018 Pacific Northwest Book Award Winners | Herringbone Books". herringbonebooks.indielite.org. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  14. ^ Marks, Book. "Emily Ruskovich Wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award". Book Marks. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  15. ^ Cazanave, Rebecca (2021-04-02). "Emily Ruskovich — April 2, 2021". English Reading Series. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  16. ^ Grenham, Sophie (2019-07-15). "My Private Idaho: Emily Ruskovich on her Prize-winning Debut Novel". The Gloss Magazine. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  17. ^ "'Idaho' Is the Literary Toast of Ireland". TERRITORY Magazine. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
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