Anna Dowdall can't seem to decide between Toronto and Montreal after living all over Canada and the US. She’s been a reporter, a college lecturer, a translator and an urban shepherd, as well as other things too numerous to mention/best forgotten. She was nominated for the US Katherine Paterson YA prize and for Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award in the unpublished category. Her fourth book, THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE, Radiant Press, 2024, has been called "an irreverent and immersive post-war fairy tale."