Michelle Bailat-Jones is a writer and translator. She was born in Japan, raised in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, and now lives in Switzerland. Her debut novel, Fog Island Mountains, is the winner of the Christopher Doheny Award from the Center for Fiction in New York City and has been published in trade paperback, ebook, and audiobook by Tantor Media. In this exclusive interview, she discusses how the kitsune folktale tradition relates to her novel.