She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language drama, in 2008 for Bone Cage and in 2012 for It Is Solved By Walking.
[1] She resides in Sambro, Nova Scotia, a rural community within the Halifax Regional Municipality.
[2] Her other plays have included Three Storey, Ocean View, Bitter Rose and Miss'n Me.
Her latest project involves adapting Ernest Buckler's novel The Mountain and the Valley for the stage.
[3] Banks has cited Michel Tremblay and María Irene Fornés as being among her literary inspirations.