Interview with Maureen Hull

I am delighted to announce that Maureen Hull, author of The View From a Kite which was shortlisted for this year's Atlantic Book Awards, has agreed to be interviewed for this blog later this summer. (If you'd like to read the first chapter, Nimbus has posted it here.)

If you have any questions for Maureen, please send them to me either via the blog or email and I'll incorporate them into the post.

She has had an interesting background, which I share with you as posted by the Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia.

Maureen Hull was born and raised on Cape Breton Island. She studied at NSCAD, Dalhousie University and the Pictou Fisheries School. Before and during her formal education she worked in the costume department of Neptune Theatre. Since 1976 she has lived on Pictou Island in the Northumberland Strait. Between 1976 and 1998 she worked as a lobster fisher; for seven of those years she home-schooled her two daughters. She began writing in 1992.

Her fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, most recently To Find Us: Words and Images of Halifax. Her short story collection, Righteous Living, Turnstone Press, 1999, was short-listed for the Danuta Gleed Award, and several of her stories have been read on CBC radio. Her second picture book, Rainy Days With Bear, 2004, was short-listed for the Ann Connor Brimer and Blue Spruce awards. Her first novel, The View From a Kite was published by Nimbus/Vagrant in September, 2006.

I hope this will be the first of a series of interviews with NS authors.

Colleen