Lindsay Starck was born in Wisconsin and raised in the Milwaukee Public Library. Her first novel, Noah's Wife, was published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 2016. Her short prose has recently appeared in The New England Review, The Southern Review, and The Cincinnati Review,  and her scholarly essays can be found in Adaptation, The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and Modern Fiction. She teaches and writes in Minneapolis, where she swims in the lakes and skis in the streets. She lives with her husband and a geriatric golden retriever.