Martha Baillie

After her return – and a brief interlude as a French immersion and ESL teacher – she took up a position at the Toronto Public Library where she is currently employed.

[1] Her most popular novel to date is The Shape I Gave You (2006), listed as a national bestseller by Maclean's magazine in May 2006.

[3] As a work of fiction the novel contains conventional elements such as "a love story and a mystery"; as a report, it presents a subtext depicting "how Toronto libraries have become a refuge for the city's marginalized".

[5] Besides five novels, Baillie has had poems published in journals including Descant, Prairie Fire and The Antigonish Review.

Other literary work includes a treatment on The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach, an installation environment by Iris Häussler, first published in Brick in 2007.