Federation of BC Writers

Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s international bestsellers, The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees were both finalists for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, among other awards. A Recipe for Bees was also nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Spawning Grounds was nominated for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award, and was short-listed for the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for fiction. Her very first book, The Miss Hereford Stories, was short-listed for the Stephen Leacock Humour Award. Her new novel, The Almost Wife, a commercial thriller, hit the Canadian bestseller lists in 2021. Her next thriller, The Almost Widow, will be released by HarperCollins in 2023. Gail has written twelve hi-lo books for the educational market, with her thirteenth about to come out with Orca Book Publishers next year. Her hi-lo book Iggy’s World was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and shortlisted for the Chocolate Lily Book Awards. The Ride Home was short-listed for a BC and Yukon Book Prize (the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize), as well as the Red Cedar Fiction Award and the Chocolate Lily Book Award.