Harriet Alida Lye is the award-winning author of The Honey Farm, Natural Killer, Let It Destroy You, and the forthcoming novel Mother Daughter Lover Clown. She is also the co-author of a children’s picture book called Serge the Snail Without a Shell. Her essays and reporting have been published in The Globe & Mail, The New York Times, and more. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, and she works with authors as a mentor and editor at Flying Books and Humber College. She has lived in Halifax, Paris, Amsterdam, New York, and now lives in Toronto with her partner, their two children, and two dogs.