Marina Endicott was born in Canada, in Golden, BC. She grew up in Halifax and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Toronto, Ontario. After working as an actor in Toronto and later in London, England, she began to write fiction. Marina worked as a director and dramaturge and ran the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre for many years before going farther west with her husband, Peter Ormshaw, on his first posting with the RCMP to Mayerthorpe, Alberta. They have two children, Will (19) and Rachel (17). Marina is the Writer in Residence at the University of Alberta for 2012/13. Marina's first book, Open Arms, was nominated for the Amazon/Books In Canada First Novel award in 2002, and her long poem about the murders of four RCMP officers in Mayerthorpe in 2005 was short-listed for the national CBC Literary Awards in 2006. Good to a Fault won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Canada/Caribbean region, was a finalist for Canada's prestigious Giller Prize, and was one of the featured books for the national CBC's Canada Reads in 2010. Her new novel, The Little Shadows, short-listed for the Governor General's Award in 2012, follows a sister-trio-harmony vaudeville act touring the western prairies in 1912. Marina is at work on a new novel, Hughtopia.