Lynn Coady is an award-winning author and journalist. Her first novel, Strange Heaven, was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award, and in 2011, her novel The Antagonist was shortlisted for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, an award she won in 2013 for her short story collection Hellgoing. She has published six books of fiction and her work has appeared in the UK, Germany, Holland and France. Coady has worked as a story editor on the TV series Orphan Black and a writer on Season Two of the HBO Canada series Sensitive Skin. She lives in Toronto.

Festival Books

In Who Needs Books?, Lynn Coady explores what happens when we separate the idea of “the book” from the experience it has traditionally provided. She challenges book lovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Coady also presents her contribution to the new anthology, Sex and Death: Stories, which brings together some of today’s most compelling writers from around the globe to explore two of the most dominant urges: the drive for life — for survival and reproduction — and the drive for death — for violence and self-destruction.