Johanna Skibsrud

Johanna Skibsrud won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her first novel, The Sentimentalists. Her first book of poetry, Late Nights With Wild Cowboys, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. She has taught ESL in Asia and has worked as a sales associate for Canadian Scholars Press and Women's Press in Toronto. Skibsrud’s This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories, includes stories about the small epiphanies of everyday life that take place around the world with settings as disparate as an art gallery, the front seat of a car, farms, and beach hotels.