Lydia Millet is the author of 11 works of literary fiction, most recently Sweet Lamb of Heaven (W.W. Norton, May 2016), a psychological thriller about a woman on the run from her dangerous husband. Millet’s previous books include Mermaids in Paradise (2014), a satire about a couple whose Caribbean honeymoon is turned on its head by a surprising discovery in a coral reef; the novel Magnificence (2012), about loss and extinction, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle and Los Angeles Times book awards; a story collection called Love in Infant Monkeys (2010), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and the novel My Happy Life (2002), which won a PEN-USA fiction award. She received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2012 and lives in the Arizona desert, where she also writes op-ed columns for The New York Times and works at the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity.