SARAH HENSTRA is the author of The Red Word, which won the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. She is also the author of the young adult novels Mad Miss Mimic, a CLA Best Book for Teens and a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, and We Contain Multitudes, which was the 2022 Vermont Reads program title and was nominated for the White Pine Award. Sarah has a PhD in English and is a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.
