Robert Hough has been published to rave reviews in fifteen territories around the world. He is the author of The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (Grove Atlantic, 2003), shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book and the Trillium Book Award; The Stowaway (Arcade, 2004), one of the Boston Globe's top ten fiction titles of 2004; The Culprits (Vintage Canada, 2008); Dr. Brinkley's Tower (Steerforth, 2012), shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for fiction and longlisted for the Giller Prize; The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan (House of Anansi, 2015), a finalist for the Trillium Book Award; and Diego's Crossing (Annick Press, 2015), shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award. Hough lives in Toronto, Ontario.