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Charlotte Gill (CAN) was born in England and now resides in Vancouver. Her non-fiction has been nominated for western and national magazine awards and in 2008 she was the Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary. Her first book, Ladykiller was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and also received the Danuta Gleed Award and the B.C. Book Prize for Fiction. Gill spent nearly two decades working in the forests planting over a million trees. She presents Eating Dirt: DeepForests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, a tree planter’s vivid story of the magical life of forests. WordFest alumna 2005, 2008 |
