David Baillie was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and raised in and around the city (with a few exceptions, like a stint in Moose Factory and way too long a year in Minnesota). He played in a couple of hardworking but (alas) long-forgotten punk bands before immigrating to the States to teach English at a down-to-earth, urban New England college prep school. He also sneaks in as much punk history as he can into anything he teaches. His first novel, What We Salvage, was a Hamilton Literary Awards finalist; like Little Bones, it draws upon Baillie’s own experiences in the boot-culture scene of the late ’80s. He currently lives in central Massachusetts with his artist/educator wife Darcy, a menagerie of children and other mammals, and a lizard gecko named Fat Norbert.