Launch of Nadja Lubiw-Hazard's THE LIFE OF A CREATURE (with Kendra Coulter)

An astonishing debut story collection about the interconnection between humans and animals navigating love, loss, and healing.

Creatures swim, slither, and soar their way through this stunning short story collection about the inextricable nature of humans and animals that celebrates and bears witness to our fellow creatures and to the complex emotional terrain of our own lives.

A woman's personal trauma and anxiety are intertwined with the lives of the feral dogs abandoned in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. As a lesbian love affair unravels, the secrets of a gift-giving crow are revealed. The life of a veterinarian is told through the animals that she has loved and that she has tried to save. A dying man dreams of returning as a vulture after death. The plight of sea turtles on the brink of extinction weaves through a mother's devastation over the loss of a daughter.

Beautiful in its renderings of human experience, The Life of a Creature is a tender and haunting book imbued with the deeply sensory intimacies of the animal world.

Nadja Lubiw-Hazard is a veterinarian turned writer who lives in Toronto. Her books include the short story collection The Life of a Creature, which won the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, the novel The Nap-Away Motel, and the children's chapter book Tizzy and Me: Fifteen Ways to Love a Mink. She is a life-long animal lover, a long-time vegan, and a dedicated animal advocate; her writing often explores themes related to the more-than-human world.

Kendra Coulter earned a PhD from the University of Toronto and is a Professor at Huron University College at Western University where she leads the world’s first major in animal ethics and sustainability leadership. She is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics in England and the author of Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection. The Tortoise’s Tale is her first novel.

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