GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ has been published worldwide in English and in many other languages in more than fifteen territories. The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees were international bestsellers, and were both finalists for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Cure for Death by Lightning won the UK's Betty Trask Prize, the BC Book Prize for Fiction and the VanCity Book Prize. Both A Rhinestone Button and Turtle Valley, were national bestsellers. She taught at the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing Program and now mentors writers around the world. She lives in the Shuswap in south-central British Columbia, the landscape found in so much of her writing.