Kirsten Bakis is the author of the novel King Nyx, published by Liveright/Norton in February 2024. Her first novel, Lives of the Monster Dogs, was released in a 20th anniversary edition in 2017 by Macmillan/FSG with a new introduction by Jeff VanderMeer. She is recipient of multiple awards including a Whiting Award, Michener-Copernicus Society of America Grant, and a 2021 Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant.She has been a resident faculty member at the Yale Writers’ Workshop since 2012. She lives in New York’s lower Hudson Valley.
