Jan Morrison was raised in the back of an avocado green station wagon. An air-force brat, her family was either relocating or taking to the back roads on summer holidays. 

While working with Innu youth in Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Jan, a playwright, poet and psychotherapist, was inspired to write The Crooked Knife, her debut novel. When not writing, Jan is in her garden or rambling the shoreline near her home in Prospect, Nova Scotia.