D. R. MacDonald is the author of the novels The Ice Bridge; Lauchlin of the Bad Heart; and Cape Breton Road, as well as the story collections All the Men Are Sleeping and Eyestone. Most of his fiction concerns Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, where he was born. His short fiction has received two Pushcart Prizes and an O. Henry Award. A professor emeritus of creative writing at Stanford University, MacDonald lives in Palo Alto, California and Cape Breton.