Gail Kathryn Anderson-Dargatz (born November 14, 1963) is a Canadian novelist.
[1] Anderson-Dargatz was born in Kamloops, British Columbia, and grew up in Salmon Arm.
She studied creative writing at the University of Victoria[1] and taught in the MFA program at UBC.
[3] Her first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning (1996), was an experimental yet accessible work whose story unfolded partly through narrative and partly through a collection of recipes and household tips belonging to the narrator's mother.
[9] She has since published the novels A Rhinestone Button (2002),[10] Turtle Valley (2007)[11] and The Spawning Grounds (2016).