CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN’s debut novel, The Day the Falls Stood Still, is a New York Times bestseller, a Barnes & Noble Recommends Selection, a Barnes & Noble Best of 2009 book, an American Booksellers Association IndieNext pick, a Canada Reads Top 40 Essential Canadian Novel of the Decade, and a Waitrose Book of the Week. Her second novel, The Painted Girls, is forthcoming in the spring of 2013. Her stories have appeared in many of Canada’s most respected literary journals. She holds a BSc (Honours Biochemistry) and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. Born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario, she now resides in Toronto.