ESI EDUGYAN is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of Washington Black, which was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Man Booker Award; and Half-Blood Blues, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Man Booker Prize. Both won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She is also the author of The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, and Dreaming of Elsewhere, which is part of the Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. (BRITISH COLUMBIA)