Louise Young has worked as a social worker, fire tower worker and model. At the University of Victoria, she completed two BFAs - one in creative writing and the other in painting. Her stories have appeared in "The Malahat Review", "The Louisville Review" and "Prism International", while her play, "Hungry Ghosts", won the CBC Playwriting Competition in 1989. "Icarus" is her first novel. Young lives in Victoria, B.C.