Margaret Gunning was born in Chatham, Ontario. Her broadly varied writing career began with the publication of a humour column in the ‘Hinton Parklander' in 1985. Since then she has published hundreds of articles in periodicals from Victoria to Montreal. Her poetry has been published in blue buffalo, ‘Room of One's Own', ‘Prism Internationa'l, and ‘Capilano Review'. She has also published short-fiction and appeared on numerous radio and television programs. This is her first novel. She currently lives in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.