Lisa Moore's Open was a finalist for the 2002 Giller Prize and a national bestseller. Her work has also appeared in Canada's most  prestigious literary magazines. Her first novel, Alligator was published by House of Anansi press in 2005. Alligator won the Commonwealth Prize for the Canadian Caribbean Region and the ReLit Award, and Open won the Canadian Authors’ Association Jubilee Prize for Short Fiction. Lisa Moore lives in St. John's with her husband and two children.