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Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits has lived in Canada since 2000. The Nearly Girl is her sixth novel. Previous novels include: The Hungry Mirror (2011 ippy Awards Gold Medal Winner); West of Wawa (2012 ippy Silver Medal Winner and a Chatelaine Editor’s Pick); A Glittering Chaos (2014 ippy Silver Medal Winner); The Witchdoctor’s Bones; and most recently, Between The Cracks She Fell (2016 ippy Bronze Medal Winner and a Canadian Living magazine “must-read book of 2015”). Her short fiction and poetry has also been published in various anthologies and journals. She lives and writes in Toronto.