Christy Ann Conlin

Christy Ann Conlin

CHRISTY ANN CONLIN is the author of the acclaimed novels Heave and The Memento. Conlin’s short fiction collection, Watermark, won the 2019 Miramichi Reader Short Story Prize and was a finalist both the Danuta Gleed Literary Prize and the Evergreen Award. Heave was a national bestseller, a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Dartmouth Book Award and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals including Best Canadian Stories, Brick, Geist, Room, Numéro Cinq and Review. Her work has also been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the American Short Fiction Prize. Christy Ann’s writing has appeared in such publications as The Globe and Mail, Brick, Room, Cottage Life and Chatelaine. Her radio broadcast work includes co-creating and hosting of Fear Itself, a CBC national summer radio series, with producer, Kent Hoffman. She has a MFA in Screenplay Writing from the University of British Columbia. Christy Ann was born and raised on the shores of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, where she still lives. Her new book, The Speed of Mercy, will be published on August 3, 2021, by House of Anansi Press.