Monica Kidd’s previous literary works include two novels, a book of non-fiction and two collections of poetry, Actualities and Handfuls of Bone. She has worked as a filmmaker, a seabird biologist and as a reporter for CBC Radio, where her documentaries won numerous awards. Kidd lives in Calgary, where she works as a medical doctor. Her newest work is The Year of our Beautiful Exile.

The Year of our Beautiful Exile

In The Year of Our Beautiful Exile, Monica Kidd observes the way in which estrangement and loss punctuate our days, but need not always diminish them. Whether she is writing of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth, the displacement of whole communities during the epic flooding of Alberta’s rivers in 2013, or of the many minor disconnections which occur in the head-long tumble of domestic life and love, Kidd demonstrates a keen eye for the ordinariness of loss, for the way in which the world evolves and adapts in the midst of perpetual change and for the many small moments of human connection that form our lives.