Carol Bruneau is the author of nine books: six novels and three short fiction collections. She has an MA in Canadian Literature from Dalhousie University, and an MA in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario. She worked as a journalist and photo editor for The Canadian Press before she began writing fiction in the early 1990s. Her present career combines writing and reviewing fiction, writing about the visual arts, and leading the occasional creative writing workshop. She has taught writing at several Maritime universities, including Dalhousie and NSCAD in Halifax, where she is based. Two of her novels have been published internationally, and her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in various Canadian newspapers, journals and anthologies.