Author
Heather Nolan is a neurodiverse writer from St. John’s, NL. She is the author of This Is Agatha Falling (Pedlar Press, 2019), which was longlisted for the BMO Winterset Award and the ReLit Award. She has published poetry and prose across Canada, the US, and the UK. She was the winner of the Gregory J. Power Poetry Award, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. This is her first poetry collection.
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