Aryn Kyle is the author of the novel “The God of Animals” and the story collection “Boys and Girls Like You and Me,” which will be published in April.

“The God of Animals” was an international bestseller and the winner of an American Library Association’s Alex Award, a PNBA Award, an MPIBA Award, and others.  It  was chosen as a Book Sense Pick, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers title, and named by Amazon as the No. 1  Fiction Debut of 2007.

Vogue raved that “Aryn Kyle’s stunning debut is a wry and moving look at a disappearing way of life … an astonishingly assured debut … powerfully understated, ruefully funny … it’s early Annie Proulx to whom she bears particular comparison.”

The Boston Globe added that “‘The God of Animals’ does what the best fiction does — it creates a whole living, breathing world and unfolds it in front of us, granting us entry into a place that, like this author, is impossible to forget.”

Aryn’s short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories 2007, Best New American Voices 2005, and elsewhere.

She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award and a National Magazine Award in fiction.

Aryn was born in Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado. She lives in New York City.

Visit her online at www.arynkyle.com.