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Yannick Murphy is the author of the novels Things That Are Funny on a Submarine but Not Really , The Call , Signed, Mata Hari , Here They Come , and The Sea of Trees . Her story collections include By the Time You Read This , Stories in Another Language , and In a Bear’s Eye . Her children’s books include The Cold Water Witch , Baby Polar , and Ahwoooooooo! .
She is the recipient of awards including a Pushcart Prize, a Laurence L. and Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, a National Endowment for the Arts award, and a Chesterfield Screenwriting award. Her story In a Bear’s Eye was published in the 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories . She and her veterinarian husband live in Vermont and breed red Golden Retrievers .