Born and raised in Alberta, Canada, novelist Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich is also a Canadian lawyer and legal scholar. She has worked as a Crown Attorney, a Criminal Defence lawyer, a civil litigator, and a law reform lawyer. After receiving her PhD in 2015, she became faculty at Carleton University, but left academia in 2019 to return to the law. She is now on the leadership team of a large, international firm. She has authored and co-authored numerous academic textbooks, co-edited several anthologies, and published her PhD thesis as a monograph. Rebecca is mother to four teenaged children.