Kevin Allardice is the author of three previous novels: Any Resemblance to Actual Persons (Counterpoint, 2013), Family, Genus, Species (Outpost19, 2017), and As The Ceiling Flew Away (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). He teaches high school in the San Francisco Bay Area where he is a Jack Hazard Fellow with The New Literary Project. He lives with his wife, the translator Diana Thow, and their son.