Johanna Skibsrud's first poetry collection, Late Nights With Wild Cowboys, was published in 2008 by Gaspereau Press and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. Originally from Scotsburn, Nova Scotia, she now lives in Montreal.
The Sentimentalists is the winner of the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize
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