Born in northern England and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Kathleen Winter's 2007 short-story collection, boYs, won both the Winterset Award and the Metcalf-Rooke Award. Her novel Annabel and was chosen for the Thomas Head Raddall Award, and for the Canada Reads competition on CBC. In 2014 she publishes a second book of short stories, The Freedom in American Songs, and a nonfiction book, Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage.