Katherine Forbes Riley is an award-winning writer and computational linguist. Her debut novel The Bobcat has been long listed for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her writing appears in many literary magazines, most recently the Wigleaf 2018 top 50 list, and in many scientific venues as well. She received her BA from Dartmouth and her doctorate from U. Pennsylvania. She finished The Bobcat while a fellow traveler at the American Academy in Rome. She lives in Vermont with her husband, artist Enrico Riley, and their two children, and can be found online at katherineforbesriley.com