The Kevin she refers to is Kevin Connolly, the poet and editor who has been her partner for more than 30 years.
“Kevin and I agreed that, regardless of trajectory or events, the real thing that’s important is if you look at the book on your shelf in your office and you’re happy with it.” “But, you know, that money is all spent now and I’m still me.” “It did change my life financially,” she says. She won or was shortlisted for prize after prize - the Dashiell Hammett Prize the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award the ReLit Award the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. It was her first novel - she’d previously published a collection of linked short stories, “Help Me, Jacques Cousteau,” and two poetry collections, “Primitive” and “Ashland.” But the publication of “The Outlander” - not to be confused with Diana Gabaldon’s “Outlander” fantasy series - was something altogether different. Launching a new book isn’t giving her the chance to get out that it normally would - although it’s given her the time to have an expansive phone conversation about her new book “Ridgerunner,” a followup of sorts to her wildly popular “The Outlander,” the book that made her a writer to watch. “Life is strangely the same inside the house and completely different outside of the house,” says Toronto writer Gil Adamson.
No matter who we’re talking to, every conversation these days starts out the same way: how are you holding up under COVID-19 restrictions?
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