Merilyn Simonds is the internationally published author of 18 books, including The Holding, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and the Canadian classic nonfiction novel, The Convict Lover, a finalist for the Governor General's Award. In 2017, Bookmark Canada unveiled a plaque to honour the place of The Convict Lover in Canada’s literary landscape. Her most recent nonfiction work is Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: Paper, Pixels, and the Lasting Impression of Books. A former adjunct professor in the University of British Columbia Creative Writing MFA program, she mentors emerging writers across North America, dividing her time between Kingston, Canada, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.