About the Author

Katherine Govier is the author of twelve novels including, The Ghost Brush, which has been translated into French, Spanish and Japanese. Her novel Creation, about John James Audubon in Labrador, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003. She has also won Canada's Marian Engel Award (1997), the Toronto Book Award (1992), and has twice been shortlisted for the Trillium prize. Today she is the founder and Director of The Shoe Project, working to improve the written and spoken English of immigrant women. Katherine travels often between Toronto and Canmore, Alberta.

Sarah Clement is a graduate of Langara College and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She has participated in solo exhibitions in Vancouver, and, most recently, in Berlin, where she lived for the past year. Sarah takes her inspiration from the natural world and is interested in telling visual stories through whimsy and detail.