Anne Michaels’ first novel was the multi-award-winning, internationally bestselling Fugitive Pieces. In Canada, it was #1, and on the national bestseller list for more than two years. The literary prizes the novel has garnered are: in Canada, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award; the City of Toronto Book Award; the Martin & Beatrice Fischer Award; the Trillium Book Award; and an Award of Merit from Heritage Toronto. In Italy, the Giuseppe Acerbi Prize. In the U.K., the Guardian Fiction Award; the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction; and the Orange Prize for Fiction. In the U.S., the Harold Ribalow Award and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Fugitive Pieces has been published around the world and was adapted into a major motion picture. Her most recent novel is The Winter Vault.

Michaels is also the author of three highly acclaimed poetry collections: The Weight of Oranges, which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner’s Pond, which received the Canadian Authors Association Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Book Award; and, most recently, Skin Divers.

Anne Michaels lives in Toronto.