a trace

Kyo Maclear is an essayist, novelist, teacher, and children’s author. Her non-fiction books include the hybrid memoir Birds Art Life (2017), finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and winner of the Trillium Book Award, and Unearthing (2023), winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. She holds a doctorate in environmental humanities and teaches writing at the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA.