Erinn Beth Langille is an award-winning Nova Scotia-born writer, editor, critic and arts administrator. She has degrees from Dalhousie University, the University of Essex, and two from NSCAD, as well as her MFA in Fiction from the University of New Orleans. She won the 2020 Ernest and Shirley Svenson Award for Fiction, the 2019 Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers- Graduate Award for Fiction, the 2014 University of Toronto Penguin Random House Award for Fiction, the 2019 Samuel Mockabee Award for Creative Non-Fiction, and was runner up for the 2020 Joanna Leake Thesis Prize. The A past participant of several residency programs, she was the co-founder and creative director of The Lemon Tree House Residency in Tuscany, Italy from 2013-2018. She often writes about literature, art, culture, food, women's issues and ecology, and has published poetry, articles and fiction in national magazines, journals and online. Her ekphrasis poem, "Take Away The Bells", a commission by the artist William Robinson, was cast as a bronze plaque and displayed at the National Gallery of Canada from October 2016 to February 2017. She lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and fellow writer Ross Nervig and their son, Magnus.