Meira Cook is the award-win­ning author of the nov­els Once More With Feel­ing; The House on Sug­ar­bush Road, which won the McNal­ly Robin­son Book of the Year Award; and Night­watch­ing, which won the Mar­garet Lau­rence Award for Fic­tion. She has also pub­lished five poet­ry col­lec­tions, most recent­ly Mono­logue Dogs, which was short­list­ed for the 2016 Lans­downe Prize for Poet­ry and for the 2016 McNal­ly Robin­son Book of the Year Award. She has served as Writer in Res­i­dence at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Manitoba’s Cen­tre for Cre­ative Writ­ing and Oral Cul­ture, and the Win­nipeg Pub­lic Library. Born and raised in Johan­nes­burg, South Africa, she now lives in Winnipeg.