Lisa Moore's book of short stories, Open, was also shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (in 2002) and became a bestseller in Canada. She writes a biweekly column in the Canadian Globe and Mail and lives in St. John's, Newfoundland with her husband and two children.

[She] is from Newfoundland - a rare and fortunate inheritance for any novelist. But she can also flat-out write, and would be a major find even if she came from Kansas

Lisa Moore's book of short stories, Open, was also shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (in 2002) and became a bestseller in Canada. She writes a biweekly column in the Canadian Globe and Mail and lives in St. John's, Newfoundland with her husband and two children.

[She] is from Newfoundland - a rare and fortunate inheritance for any novelist. But she can also flat-out write, and would be a major find even if she came from Kansas

Lisa Moore's book of short stories, Open, was also shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (in 2002) and became a bestseller in Canada. She writes a biweekly column in the Canadian Globe and Mail and lives in St. John's, Newfoundland with her husband and two children.

[She] is from Newfoundland - a rare and fortunate inheritance for any novelist. But she can also flat-out write, and would be a major find even if she came from Kansas