Bridget Canning was raised on a sheep farm in Highlands, Newfoundland and currently lives in St. John’s. Her debut novel, The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes, was published with Breakwater Books in April, 2017 and selected as a finalist for the BMO Winterset Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book (Fiction) Award, the 2018 NL Book Award for Fiction, winner of the Bronze IPPY Award for Best Fiction, Canada East and nominated for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award. She is the recipient of the 2018 CBC Emerging Artist Award with ArtsNL.