Finalist: 2019 Wildrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction at the 2019 Alberta Literary Awards
Shawna Lemay is the author of the bestselling novel Rumi and the Red Handbag. She has written six books of poetry, a book of essays, and the experimental novel Hive. All the God-Sized Fruit, her first book, won the Stephan G. Stephansson Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Calm Things: Essays was shortlisted for the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction. She also writes the popular blogs Calm Things and Transactions With Beauty. She lives in Edmonton.