Louise CarsonBorn in Montreal and raised in Hudson, Quebec, Louise Carson studied music in Montreal and Toronto, played jazz piano and sang in the chorus of the Canadian Opera Company. She has published eighteen books: three collections of poetry--A Clearingi>, Dog Poems, and The Truck Driver Treated for Shock; three stand-alone works of fiction--Mermaid Road, Executor, and The Last Unsuitable Man; The Chronicles of Deasil Widdy trilogy--In Which (shortlisted for the 2019 QWF price for Children's literature and the 2019 ReLit Award), Measured, and Third Circle; as well as the stand-alone prequel to the Deasil Widdy books--Rope: A Tale Told in Prose and Verse; and her Maples Mystery series--The Cat Among Us, The Cat Vanishes, The Cat Between, The Cat Possessed, A Clutter of Cats, The Cat Looked Back, The Cat Crosses a Line, The Cat Laughs, and The Last Cat.