Christy Ann Conlin

CHRISTY ANN CONLIN’s acclaimed first novel, Heave (2002), was a Globe and Mail ”Top 100″ book, a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award. Heave was also longlisted for the 2011 CBC Canada Reads Novels of the Decade. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Best Canadian Stories. Conlin also hosted the popular 2012 CBC summer radio series Fear Itself. The Memento is her first novel in fourteen years. Conlin teaches at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies’ online Creative Writing program. She lives in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.