Eowyn LeMay Ivey was born and reared in Alaska, where she still lives with her husband and two daughters. She earned a BA in journalism with a minor in creative writing from Western Washington University's honors program, went on to study creative nonfiction at the University of Alaska Anchorage's graduate program, and spent nearly a decade as an award-winning reporter for the Frontiersman newspaper. She is the author of The Snow Child, a New York Times bestseller.