Harriet Alida Lye is the bestselling, award-winning author of the novels Let It Destroy You and The Honey Farm, the memoir Natural Killer, and co-author of the picture book Serge the Snail Without a Shell. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Happy Reader, Hazlitt, Vice, Catapult, and more. She lives in Toronto. Motherclown is her fifth book.