Jane Urquhart is the author of five internationally acclaimed and award-winning novels. She is also the author of a collection of short fiction and three books of poetry. Urquhart has been named a Chevalier dan l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities and has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the University of Toronto. She was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto.

Jane Urquhart is the author of five internationally acclaimed and award-winning novels. She is also the author of a collection of short fiction and three books of poetry. Urquhart has been named a Chevalier dan l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities and has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the University of Toronto. She was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto.