HELEN HUMPHREYS is the author of many acclaimed and award-winning works including Followed by the Lark, The Ghost Orchard, Coventry, Machines Without Horses, Nocturne and Rabbit Foot Bill, which has been optioned for television. She has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, a Lambda Literary Award for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award. She has also been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award and CBC’s Canada Reads. Humphreys is the recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence and of the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Award in Celebration of a Writing Life. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.
