Bio Section

2009 - Sara TilleySkin Room

Sara Tilley is a finalist for the 2008 Winterset Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize for her debut novel Skin Room. It also won both the 2004 Newfoundland and Labrador Percy Janes First Novel Award and the inaugural Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers in 2006. As well as an author, Tilley is a theatre artist and clown who lives and works in her home town of St. John’s, Newfoundland.