Wayne Grady

Wayne Grady is the award-winning author of Emancipation Day, a novel of denial and identity. With his wife, novelist Merilyn Simonds, he co-authored Breakfast at the Exit Café: Travels Through America. And with David Suzuki he co-wrote the international bestseller Tree: A Life Story. He has also translated fourteen works of fiction from the French. In 1989, he won the Governor General’s Award for his translation of Maillet’s On the Eighth Day. Grady teaches creative writing in the optional-residency MFA program at the University of British Columbia. He and Merilyn Simonds live in the country north of Kingston, Ontario.