Ava Reid was born in Man­hat­tan and raised right across the Hud­son Riv­er in Hobo­ken, New Jer­sey, but cur­rent­ly lives in Palo Alto. She has a degree in polit­i­cal sci­ence from Barnard Col­lege, focus­ing on reli­gion and eth­nona­tion­al­ism. She has worked for a refugee reset­tle­ment orga­ni­za­tion, for a U.S. sen­a­tor, and, most recent­ly, for an AI robot­ics start­up. The Wolf and the Woods­man is her first novel.