Christy Ann Conlin is a writer who lives in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Her first novel, Heave, was a Globe and Mail “Top 100” book in 2002 and was a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, and the Dartmouth Book Award. Her second novel, The Memento, was published last year. Conlin completed an MFA at the University of British Columbia and teaches in the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies creative writing program.