Anne Simpson is the author of three books of poetry, "Light Falls Through You," winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize; "Loop," winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Governor General’ s Award for Poetry; and, most recently, "Quick," Her first novel, "Canterbury Beach," was shortlisted for the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. In 1997 her short story “ Dreaming Snow” shared the Journey Prize, and in 1999 she was awarded the Bliss Carman Poetry Award. Simpson lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where she helped esta...