The Petty Details of So-And-So's Life (36 page)

Her debut novel,
Mouthing the Words
, was winner of the City of Toronto Book Award in 2000, and she received the CBC Canadian Literary Award for short fiction in 2001. Her latest novel, the bestselling
Sweetness in the Belly
, was winner of the Trillium Book Award in 2006, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her books have been published in 19 countries and translated into 15 languages. She is one of 21 writers on the “Orange Futures List”—a list of young writers to watch in the new century, compiled by the jury of the prestigious Orange Prize.

Camilla Gibb has been writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta and at the University of Toronto, where she is now an adjunct faculty member of the English Department's M.A. in Creative Writing Program. She is currently at work on a new novel.