Virginia Reeves is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at UT-Austin. She is the author of The Behavior of Love (Scribner, 2019) and Work Like Any Other (Scribner, 2016). Work Like Any Other was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and Booklist named it to their Top 10 First Novels of 2016. She teaches writing and literature at Helena College and lives with her partner, two daughters, and three-legged Pit Bull in a house that has survived a major earthquake and a fire.