Aryn Kyle

Aryn Kyle, 27, graduated from the University of Montana writing program. Her work has been featured in The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Ploughshares and Best American Voices 2005 and, in 2005, she was awarded the Rona Jaffe Award (an awards program dedicated to supporting women writers). ‘Foaling Season,’ taken from the first chapter of this novel, was one of the three stories that won The Atlantic Monthly National Magazine Award for fiction in 2004. Born in Illinois, Kyle spent most of her childhood in Grand Junction, Colorado and now lives in Missoula, Montana. God Of Animals is her first novel.