The Sudden Weight of Snow (41 page)

Laisha Rosnau was born in Pointe Claire, Quebec, and grew up in Vernon, British Columbia. She has worked as a child-care worker, a landscaper, a waitress, a fruit picker, an interpretive guide, a journalist, and an editor. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, where she was the Executive Editor of
PRISM
international
. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the United States, and Australia.
The Sudden Weight of Snow
is her first novel.

Laisha Rosnau lives in Vancouver, where she is at work on a collection of poetry and on her second novel.