Gen­naRose Nether­cott is a writer and folk­lorist. Her first book, The Lumberjack’s Dove, was select­ed by Louise Glück as a win­ner of the Nation­al Poet­ry Series, and she is the author behind the nar­ra­tive song col­lec­tion Mod­ern Bal­lads and Lian­na Fled the Cran­ber­ry Bog: A Sto­ry in Cootie Catch­ers, among oth­er projects. She tours nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly per­form­ing strange tales (some­times with pup­pets in tow) and com­pos­ing poems-to-order for strangers on an antique type­writer with her team The Trav­el­ing Poet­ry Empo­ri­um. She lives in the wood­lands of Ver­mont, beside an old ceme­tery. This is her debut novel.