**ANNE MICHAELS *is the author of the multiple prizewinner Fugitive Pieces,which was made into a major motion picture, and a second novel, The Winter Vault,which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and a nominee for the Intern...

**ANNE MICHAELS *is the author of the multiple prizewinner Fugitive Pieces,which was made into a major motion picture, and a second novel, The Winter Vault,which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is also the author of several highly acclaimed poetry volumes, the selected volume Poems *, and, most recently, Correspondences. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.