CHRISTY ANN CONLIN is the author of The Memento and Heave, which was a Globe and Mail “Top 100” book, and a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, and the Dartmouth Book Award. She is also the author of a young adult novel, Dead Time. Conlin studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia, where she received the William Rhea Fellowship in Television Writing. She lives in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.