Kathy Page

She is the author of seven previous novels, including The Story of My Face (longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2002) and Alphabet (nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in Canada in 2005), as well as Canada's Giller Prize-shortlisted story collections Paradise & Elsewhere (2014) and The Two of Us (2016).

Her latest novel, Dear Evelyn, was published in 2018 by And Other Stories in Europe and Biblioasis in North America.

In the late 1990s, she trained as a psychotherapist and worked briefly in a therapeutic community for drug users.

Page's 2002 book The Story of My Face, which was long listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the U.K.

[citation needed] Her novel Paradise and Elsewhere, a collection of short stories, was published in June 2014.