EDWARD RICHE is a novelist and noted writer for the stage, screen and radio. His novel The Nine Planets won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. He wrote the feature film Secret Nation and the stage plays Possible Maps and List of Lights. Other projects include CBC Radio’s The Great Eastern, scripts for the television comedies Made in Canada and Dooley Gardens, and the screenplay for the major motion picture adaptation of his novel, Rare Birds. Edward Riche lives in St. John’ s, Newfoundland.