Ami Sands Brodoff is the award-winning author of three novels and two story collections. The Sleep of Apples, her new novel-in-stories, centres on nine closely linked characters confronting crises related to mental illness, mortality--sooner rather than later--and gender identity. The book calls into questions our notions of madness and explodes the last taboo: death. Ami's latest novel, In Many Waters, grapples with our world-wide refugee crisis. The White Space Between, which won The Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction (The Vine Award) focuses on a mother and daughter struggling with the impact of the Holocaust. Bloodknots, a volume of thematically linked stories, was a finalist for the ReLit Award. Ami leads creative writing workshops to teens, adults, and seniors. She has also taught writing to formerly incarcerated women and to people grappling with mental illness. Ami has been awarded fellowships to Yaddo, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, and St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity (Malta). She makes her home in Montreal with her partner, children and high energy Brittany Spaniel Xeno. Learn more at Amisandsbrodoff.com