Charlotte Gill was born in London and raised in Canada and the United States. Her book Eating Dirt was a national bestseller that won the B.C. National Award for Canadian Nonfiction and was also shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize and the RBC Taylor Prize. She is also the author of Almost Brown, a mixed-race family memoir, and Ladykiller, which was a Governor General’s Award nominee. She lives on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada.