Charlotte Gill
Charlotte Gill is a Canadian fiction and non-fiction writer.
Gill holds a BA from the University of Toronto and an MFA from the University of [British Columbia]. Her short story collection Ladykiller won the Ethel [Wilson Fiction Prize] and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2006, and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2005 [Governor General's Awards]. Her non-fiction book Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2012, and was a shortlisted finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Gill currently works with the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia as a writing mentor in the Master of Fine Arts in Fiction program. Gill and her husband both formerly worked as professional tree planters.