Megan Gail Coles is a second-generation Canadian artist, academic and mother of mixed heritage from the Strait of Belle Isle on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. Her books include Squawk, Satched, Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome and Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club. Her fiction has been a finalist for the Giller Prize, a CBC Canada Reads contender and has twice won the BMO Winterset award. Megan’s new novel, Merciful Acts of Meaningless Cruelty, is forthcoming from Bond Street Books 2027. Megan is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Poverty Cove Theatre Company in St. John’s with multiple plays in development and production at Theatre Newfoundland Labrador. Megan is thrilled to return to the Gros Morne Theatre Festival with the next installment of her Driftwood Trilogy.