Charlotte Gill
Works by Charlotte Gill:
From ABC BookWorld, "Her memoir of treeplanting, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree Planting Tribe (Greystone, 2011) was shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize [See below] and then won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2012 . . .and the 2012 Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award from the Canadian Booksellers Association, judged by independent booksellers and presented at the 2012 Libris Awards in Toronto. It also received the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.
According to the National Post, "Gill was a tree planter for 17 years, first in Ontario, then in British Columbia; she estimates she has planted one million trees. Today, she teaches in the University of B.C.'s online creative writing program from her new home in Powell River, but she says she misses tree planting every day."
Born in London, England, and raised in the United States and Canada, Charlotte Gill is a UBC creative writing graduate whose work has appeared in Best Canadian Stories, The Journey Prize Stories, and many Canadian magazines, and has been broadcast on CBC Radio. Her non-fiction has been nominated for Western and National Magazine Awards.
Gill's father is Indian and her mother is English. They met in 1960s London, married and had three children. The family left England for North America hoping to leave behind the prejudice against interracial love as Gill relates in Almost Brown: A Mixed-Race Family Memoir (Viking $36 h.c.). Seeking the dream of life, liberty and happiness tears the family apart and results in a divorce, many grudges and decades of not communicating. Eventually Gill and her father reconnect."
She appeared at the Festival of Written Arts in 2012.