ROSELLA LESLIE was born in Edmonton and grew up in small towns throughout Alberta and British Columbia before settling in Sechelt. She is one of the authors of Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Fishing, which won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize at the 2005 British Columbia Book Awards. Her first solo novel, The Goat Lady's Daughter, was published by NeWest in 2006.