Lynn Coady
Lynn Coady was nominated for the 1998 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction for her first novel, Strange Heaven. She received the Canadian Authors Association/Air Canada Award for the best writer under thirty and the Dartmouth Book and Writing Award for fiction. Her second book, Play the Monster Blind, was a national bestseller and a "Best Book" of 2000 for the Globe and Mail; Saints of Big Harbour, also a bestseller, was a Globe and Mail "Best Book" in 2002. Her most recent novel, Mean Boy, was called "pungently realistic...daring and brilliant" by the Globe and Mail. Her forthcoming novel is called Hyperborea.
Her articles and reviews have appeared in several publications including Saturday Night, This Magazine, and Chatelaine. For many years a resident of Vancouver and then Edmonton, Lynn Coady now lives in Toronto.
