When Norrin M. Ripsman isn’t writing fiction, he is a professor of International Relations at Lehigh University. Born in Canada, he has lived in eleven cities in six countries on three continents. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 and has made suburban Philadelphia his home since 2016. He has published a novel, The Oracle of Spring Garden Road, and a collection of fourteen short stories, Song Book. He is currently working on his fourth novel.