Elizabeth Hay is the author of two highly acclaimed, bestselling novels. Her first novel, "A Student of Weather "(2000), won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award, and was a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Ottawa Book Award, and the Pearson Canada Reader's Choice Award at The Word on the Street. Her most recent novel, "Garbo Laughs "(2003), won the Ottawa Book Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. She is also the author of "Crossing the Snow Line" (stories, 1989); "The Only Snow in Havana" (non-fiction, 1992); "Captivity Tales: Canadian...