Peter Oliva was born in Eugene, Oregon, and grew up in Canada and Italy. The City of Yes (1999) was the winner of the F.G. Bressani Prize, the Georges Bugnet Award, and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Oliva’s previous novel, Drowning in Darkness (1993), was also highly acclaimed and was listed as one of the four “most technically and imaginatively accomplished novels produced between 1983 and 1996” by the Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Both novels were named as an Editor’s Choice by the Globe &
Mail.
Presently, Oliva writes for numerous magazines and newspapers. He is at
work on his next novel.
