After winning the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2012, Jen Neal published her first novel Land Mammals and Sea Creatures (ECW, 2018) about a young woman returning to the small port town where she was raised. It is described in publicity materials as "an exploration of love and grief" and "magical realism by the seaside."

Neal holds a master's degree in creative writing from UBC.

BOOKS

Land Mammals and Sea Creatures (ECW, 2018) $18.95 978-1-77041-414-3

[BCBW 2017]