Anne Degrace
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Author, Librarian, WriterBiography
Born on January 12th, 1960 in Ottawa, Anne DeGrace came to British Columbia in 1981. A librarian and journalist living in Nelson, she is the author of two photographic books of the West Kootenay region. Her first novel, Treading Water (McArthur & Co., 2005), traces a fictional community in the BC interior from its first settler to the last to leave in the face of hydroelectric dam development in the 1960s. It's based on the fate of Renata, BC, a community submerged under 35 feet of water by the erection of the Hugh Keenleyside Dam. Her follow-up novels are Wind Tails (2007) and Sounding Line (2009). The latter is derived for a reported UFO sighting in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, that produced a media frenzy and the arrival of both American and Canadian military ships in the harbour. That incident has been dubbed 'Canada's Roswell.' DeGrace has fictionalized the story, concentrating on how the hoopla impacts one particular family. Her first collection of Trans-Canada short stories is Flying with Amelia (McArthur & Co., 2011) with a variety of settings between 1901 and 1999.Adapted from ABC Bookworld, 2015