Kathleen Winter has written dramatic and documentary scripts for Sesame Street and CBC Television. Her collection of short stories, boYs , won the Metcalf-Rooke award and the 2008 Winterset Award. Her novel Annabel became a #1 bestseller in Canada and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Award, and the 2011 Orange Prize. She was born in the industrial northeast of England and lives in Montreal with her husband and daughters.

Kathleen Winter appears courtesy of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal, Quebec.