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.