Kathryn Scanlan received a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for ?exceptional accomplishment? in literature. Her story collection The Dominant Animal was named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian, Southwest Review, and Publishers Weekly, and her first book, Aug 9?Fog, was praised in a starred review by Publishers Weekly as ?an outstanding debut, profound and moving: Scanlan's portrait of an everywoman feels entirely new." She lives in Los Angeles.