About the Author
Jennifer Quist
Jennifer Quist is a novelist, poet, columnist and short fiction writer. Her short fiction “Fish Story” was nominated for the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Howard O’Hagan Award. Her poetry, short fiction and essays have been published in The Globe and Mail, National Post, Maclean’s, and Today’s Parent, and she has written and voiced introspective personal essays for CBC Radio One’s Definitely Not the Opera and Tapestry. Love Letters of the Angels of Death is her first novel. Author website: http://www.jenniferquist.com.
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