Swimming In The Ocean is about tossing secrets into the water to become free from the bonds of silence and unnamed tensions that often hold us back from embracing our sometimes uncomfortable and cumbersome selves. Poet and freelance editor and writer Catherine Jenkins' début novel boldly celebrates the resilience and complexity of human emotion and spirit in sleek and honest poetic prose.

Catherine Jenkins is an existential noir romantic who believes in passion, writes about love and death, and is beginning to see the humour in all of it. Jenkins spent much of her childhood travelling through Europe, eventually settling in Peterborough, Ontario. She holds an M.A. in Methodologies for the Study of Western Culture and History from Trent University. Her poetry, prose reviews and photographs have appeared in numerous international publications. She has written two collections of poetry, and is at work on a third. Jenkins lives in Toronto, where she works as a freelance writer and editor.

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