Kristen den Hartog is a novelist and non-fiction writer whose work has won the Alberta Trade Fiction Book of the Year Award and been shortlisted for the Trillium Award and twice for the Toronto Book Award. She is the author of four novels, and, with her sister, Tracy Kasaboski, two family memoirs: The Occupied Garden was a Globe & Mail Top 100 selection, and The Cowkeeper's Wish was praised by Canada's History for its blend of "graceful prose" and "meticulous research on a stupendous scale." Work on these two books - intimate wartime histories of ordinary families - sparked an interest in how war changes the direction of people's lives, and prompted the writing of her most recent book, The Roosting Box: Rebuilding the Body After the First World War, which tells the story of patients at staff at Toronto's Christie Street hospital. Kristen den Hartog lives in Toronto and in Lyndhurst, Ontario, where she is at work on a series of whimsical chapbooks she calls Beatrix Potter for Grownups.
