Ashley Little's Anatomy of a Girl Gang won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes), was shortlisted for the Vancouver Book Award, and was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her follow-up novel Niagara Motel was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her young adult novel The New Normal (Orca) won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize. She has an MFA from the University of British Columbia. She lives in the Okanagan Valley.