Zoe Whittall is the author of five bestselling novels and three volumes of poetry, including The Fake and The Spectacular, The Best Kind of People, Holding Still for as Long as Possible, and Bottle Rocket Hearts.Her work has won a Lambda Literary Award, the Writers' Trust Dayne Ogilvie Award, and been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She has worked as a TV writer on the Emmy-Award winning comedy show Schitt's Creek and The Baroness Von Sketch Show for which she won a 2018 Canadian Screen Award. She was born in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and now lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.