Marissa Stapley is the author of the critically acclaimed Globe and Mail bestselling novel Mating for Life, which was released in 2014 by Atria Books and Simon & Schuster Canada and reprinted in June 2016; and Things to Do When It's Raining, which will be released by Rowohlt Verlag in Germany on November 17, 2017 and by Simon & Schuster Canada and Graydon House (US) on February 6, 2018. She is a National Magazine Award nominated journalist who has previously worked as a magazine editor and creative writing and editing instructor at the University of Toronto and Centennial College. She currently writes Shelf Love, a monthly commercial fiction review column, for the Globe and Mail and is working on a third novel. She lives in Toronto with her husband, two children, and a hockey-playing cat.

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