Claire Holden Rothman is a Montreal writer who taught literature at Marianopolis College for many years and headed the advanced fiction workshop at McGill University. She now makes her living translating and adapting scripts for television. She has also translated literary works, including the first novel written in French Canada, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé’s 19th century classic Le chercheur de trésors (The Influence of a Book), for which she won the John Glassco Translation Award. Claire’s own fiction publications include two collections of stories (Salad Days; Black Tulips) and a novel, The Heart Specialist.Read Less