Antiguan and Barbudan Joanne C. Hillhouse is the author of Oh Gad! (Strebor/Atria/Simon & Schuster), The Boy from Willow Bend (Macmillan/Hansib), and Fish Outta Water (Pearson). Her fiction also appears in the anthologies So the Nailhead Bend, So the Story End: An Anthology of Antiguan and Barbudan Writing (A Different Publisher), In the Black: New African Canadian Literature (Insomniac Press) and For Women: In Tribute to Nina Simone (Black Classic Press/MZWrightNow Publications). Hillhouse's awards include a Breadloaf fellowship, the David Hough Literary Prize, and a UNESCO Honour Award for contribution to literacy and the literary arts in Antigua and Barbuda. She's founder and co-ordinator of the Wadadli Youth Pen Prize - promoting the literary arts among young people in Antigua and Barbuda. She works as a freelance writer and editor.