Laisha Rosnau is the author of the bestselling novel The Sudden Weight of Snow (McClelland & Stewart) and four critically acclaimed, award-winning collections of poetry. Her work has been nominated for several awards – including the sss Canada First Novel Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the CBC Poetry Prize (three times) – and has won the Dorothy Livesay Award and the Acorn-Plantos Award. Rosnau’s work has been published across Canada and in the US, UK and Australia. She teaches at UBC Okanagan’s Creative Writing program. Rosnau lives in Coldstream, BC, where she and her family are resident caretakers of Bishop Wild Bird Sanctuary. Visit her website at laisharosnau.com.
