Nina Berkhout is the author of three novels, most recently Why Birds Sing (ECW Press), which appeared in France this year and which was named a “must read” by The Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen, a Best Book of the Year (Canada) by Amazon’s Audible audiobooks, and a Great Group Reads by the Women’s National Book Association (USA). The book has been optioned by Mountain Goat Film. Her young adult novel The Mosaic was nominated for the White Pine Award and the Ottawa Book Awards and named an Indigo Best Teen Book, and her novel The Gallery of Lost Species was named an Indigo and Kobo Best Book and a Harper’s Bazaar Hottest Breakout Novel. Berkhout is also the author of five poetry collections, including Elseworlds, which won the Archibald Lampman Award. Her poetry is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2024. Originally from Calgary, she lives in Ottawa.