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I live on the edge of a meat-grinder sea on the far eastern coastline of Nova Scotia, Canada, where I was born.

Despite being convinced that parenthood would be a barfy-smelling, cheerio-crunching, sweatpant-wearing purgatory, I had a baby in January 2005. His name is Evan. Happily recruited into the baby gulag, we became pregnant with identical twin boys. In May 2007 they were born three months early. One survived and one did not. Liam, who lived for six weeks, whispers to us every day. His mirror-brother Ben loves cupcakes, lego, and Evan.

After Liam died I launched a collaborative blog for babylost parents called Glow in the Woods, a retreat and now a warm, embracing and entirely cherub-free community. I spend a lot of time with my camera in-hand, chasing light, and write for Shutter Sisters as a founding contributor. I also sell fine art prints.

In November 2009 my first novel was published — The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods, a book January Magazine calls "a spirited tale, gorgeously rendered." The second edition lands in Canada and the U.S. in April 2010. The second novel is inside my head.

Why sweet | salty? Because that’s what it is.

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