After graduating in Fine Arts, Monica Drake began teaching creative writing in Portland, where she lives. She was the winner of literary awards as prestigious as the Eric Hoffer and the Independent Publisher Book Award, thanks to a style that publications from around the world have described as elegant and addictive. Friends with children, the book that according to Chuck Palahniuk "is so funny that it would make a dog laugh," is the most ingenious novel by a writer who has been praised by the best American critics.