Johanna Skibsrud is an award-winning Canadian writer of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Her numerous titles include the Giller-prize winning novel, The Sentimentalists (Gaspereau 2010; Penguin Random House 2016), a book of essays, “The nothing that is”: Essays on Art, Literature and Being (Book*hug 2019), a scholarly monograph, Fool (Routledge 2023) and—most recently—a collection of poetry, Medium (Book*hug 2024). Born in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1980, Johanna received her PhD in English Literature at the Université de Montréal. She is currently Professor of English at the University of Arizona and divides her time between Tucson, Arizona, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.