SHAUNA SINGH BALDWIN was born in Montreal and grew up in India. The story that was to become her bestselling first novel, What the Body Remembers, was awarded the Saturday Night CBC Literary Prize. What the Body Remembers received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Canada and the Caribbean region). English Lessons and Other Stories received the Friends of American Writers award. The Tiger Claw was a Giller Prize Finalist in 2004. She is the co-author of A Foreign Visitor’s Survival Guide to America, and presently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.