Elizabeth Hay is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including Late Nights on Air, His Whole Life, and A Student of Weather. Her memoir All Things Consoled won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non- Fiction; her story collection Small Change was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award in Fiction. A former radio broadcaster, she spent a number of years in Mexico and New York City, and makes her home in Ottawa.