Carol Bruneau is the acclaimed author of three short story collections, including <i>A Bird on Every Tree</i>, published by Vagrant Press in 2017, and five other novels. Her first novel, <i>Purple for Sky</i>, won the 2001 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award. Her 2007 novel, <i>Glass Voices</i>, was a <i>Globe and Mail</i> Best Book and has become a book club favourite. Her most recent novel, <i>A Circle on the Surface</i>, won the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award. Her reviews, stories, and essays have appeared nationwide in newspapers, journals, and anthologies, and two of her novels have been published internationally. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her husband and their dog and badass cat.