Johanna Lane grew up in Ireland. She holds an MA in English Language & Literature from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and an MFA from Columbia University. Her first novel, Black Lake, was published by Little, Brown in 2014. She's taught high school seniors as writer-in-residence at Phillips Academy, Andover, and graduate students in Columbia's MFA program, but most of her career has been spent teaching undergraduates at Columbia, CUNY, Yeshiva College, and now at UC Davis, where's she's taught ENL 3, ENL 5F and ENL 100F. Find out more about her writing at johannalane.net