Bio

Janice Lynn Mather is a Bahamian-Canadian author living and writing on the traditional land of the Tsawwassen and Musqueam First Nations. Her first novel, Learning to Breathe, was a
2018 Governor General’s Award finalist and a BC Book Prize finalist, and won the Joan F.
Kaywell Books Save Lives award. Her second novel, Facing the Sun, is an Amy Mathers Teen
Book Award recipient. Her third book, Uncertain Kin, was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Where Was Goodbye? is her fourth book.