Janette Turner Hospital grew up in Australia, makes her home in Kingston, Ontario, and has lived in the US, England, and India. She is the author of six novels; The Ivory Swing (1982) won the Seal First Novel Award. She has also published three collections of stories, a crime thriller, and a French novella. "Queen of Pentacles, Nine of Swords," which was a winner in the 1986 CBC Canadian Literary Awards, was published in Isobars "1991", a collection of her short fiction.