Event Speaker: Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Elisabeth de Mariaffi is the critically acclaimed author of four books of fiction, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated short story collection How to Get Along with Women (2012), and the novels The Devil You Know (2015) and Hysteria (2018), both of which were named Globe and Mail Best Books of the year, and shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, and most recently, The Retreat (2021) which won the NL Book Award for Fiction. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, and has taught fiction and screenwriting at UBC, Memorial University, and the Humber School for Writers. Elisabeth is currently on faculty in the MFA (Fiction) at the University of Kings College. She makes her home in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, where she is Executive Director at Riddle Fence: A Journal of Arts and Culture.