Bio
Shari Lapeña worked as a lawyer and as an English teacher before turning to writing fiction. She is a graduate of The Humber School for Writers, where her mentor was David Adams Richards. Her first novel,
Things Go Flying, was shortlisted for the 2009 Sunburst Award. She won the
Globe and Mail’s Great Toronto Literary Project contest, and was shortlisted for the 2006
CBC Literary Awards. Her second novel,
Happiness Economics, was published in September, 2011 and was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. She lives in Toronto and is currently at work on her third novel.
