Julie Lekstrom Himes' short fiction has been published in <i>Shenandoah</i>, <i>The Florida Review</i> (Editor's Choice Award 2008), <i>Fourteen Hills</i> (nominated for Best American Mysteries 2011), and elsewhere. <i>Mikhail and Margarita</i> is her debut novel. She lives with her family in Marblehead, Massachusetts.