Bio

Charlotte Gill was born in London, England and raised in the United States and Canada. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in many Canadian magazines, Best Canadian Stories, The Journey Prize Stories, and has been broadcast on CBC Radio. Her literary non-fiction has been nominated for Western and National Magazine Awards. Her first book, Ladykiller (Thomas Allen), was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. It received the Danuta Gleed Award and the B.C. Book Prize for fiction. She is the 2008 Markin-Flanagan Writer-In-Residence at the University of Calgary.