Sarah Dearing is the author of two critically acclaimed novels: The Bull is not Killed and Courage My Love, recipient of the 2002 City of Toronto Book Award. In 2001, she won the Canada Council’s Joseph Stauffer Award for most promising young writer and has twice been shortlisted for the Ontario Arts Council’s K. M. Hunter Award. Born in London, Ontario, Dearing now lives in Toronto and is at work on a fourth novel.