KATE PULLINGER is the author of more than ten novels, including her most recent, Landing Gear. In 2009, The Mistress of Nothing won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Pullinger's prize-winning digital fiction projects Inanimate Alice and Flight Paths: A Networked Novel have reached audiences around the world. She co-wrote the novel of the film The Piano with director Jane Campion. Born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, she is currently a Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media at Bath Spa University. She is married and has two children. Visit her at katepullinger.com.