Camilla Gibb (born February 20, 1968) is an English-born Canadian writer who currently resides in Toronto.

She wrote it while living in her brother's trailer home, working on a borrowed laptop, after receiving a $6,000 gift from a benefactor.

[1] Gibb's third novel, Sweetness in the Belly (2005), is set against the backdrop of the Ethiopian Revolution and largely takes place in the ancient walled city of Harar.

It has been produced as film starring Dakota Fanning, Yahya Abdulmateen II and Kunal Nayyar.

[4] Gibb's father Duncan, a man she describes as "prone to manic outbursts and destructive, paranoid and cruel", but also intelligent and full of projects, disappeared when she was in her early twenties.