<p class="biography">Novelist and biologist <b>Ann Eriksson</b> combines her background in ecology with her life experiences to create works of fiction populated with rich characters and grounded in nature. She is the author of the novels <i>In the Hands of Anubis</i> (2009), <i>Decomposing Maggie</i> (2003) and <i>Falling from Grace</i> (2010), which received the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Western Canadian Fiction. Ann was born in Saskatchewan and grew up in the Canadian Prairie provinces, eventually migrating to the West Coast in the late seventies.</p>