Cheryl Walsh earned a master’s degree in English history before giving in to the tug of fabrication and turning her hand to fiction writing. She has been awarded writing residencies with the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and her stories have appeared in online literary journals as well as print magazines and anthologies. A native Michigander, she traded in lake-effect snow squalls for prairie blizzards and now lives and writes in Iowa City, where she shares a hundred-year-old house with her husband. Unequal Temperament is her debut novel.