about the author

Kipling Knox is the author of Under the Moon in Illinois, a novel of interconnected stories. Stories from this book won the Chris O'Malley Prize in Fiction and the Wild Women Award, were finalists for Tobias Wolff Awards, and have been published or recognized by the Madison Review, Narrative Magazine, the TulipTree Review, the Bellingham Review, and the Whitefish Review. He also writes Small Talk, a series of essays covering science, philosophy, culture, and the arts—all with a touch of humor.  

He has worked as an engineering manager at Microsoft, an editor for World Book Publishing and Reed Elsevier, and Director of Web Services at the University of Illinois. A native of Illinois who’s also lived in western Washington and Alabama, he works to promote biodiversity, even on a backyard scale, with a special interest in prairie lands.