Books that Made Me Realize I Needed To Be a Writer (by Alison Pick)
Alison Pick's most recent novel, FAR TO GO, won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction. It has been optioned for film, translated into Dutch, French and Italian, and published internationally. Alison was the winner of the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Award for most promising Canadian writer under 35, the 2003 National Magazine Award for Poetry, and the 2005 CBC Literary Award for Poetry. Currently on Faculty at the Humber Correspondence Program in Creative Writing, Alison Pick lives in Toronto with her family.
