Carellin Brooks

Carellin Brooks is the author and editor of several books and collections, including Wreck Beach (2007) in New Star's Transmontanus series. She is also the author of the non-fiction books Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, and the Text (2001), Fresh Hell: Motherhood in Pieces (2013), and, most recently, One Hundred Days of Rain (2016), which won both the 2016 Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and the 2016 ReLit Award for Fiction.

A Rhodes Scholarship kid, Carellin Brooks holds a BA from McGill University as well as a doctorate from Oxford University. She lives in Vancouver, where she was born, and teaches writing at the University of British Columbia.