Janet E. Cameron was born in 1970 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and grew up in the beautiful Annapolis Valley. In 1991 she graduated from Dalhousie University with a BA in English and spent the next ten years at a number of pursuits: living in a cabin in Nova Scotia, slopping coffee in Vancouver, getting qualified as a teacher in Montreal (specialising in English as a second language), teaching business English in Toronto, and writing plays – her second effort won a student playwriting contest. In 2001 she went to Tokyo for what was supposed to be one year of teaching and stayed for four. During her second year in Japan she met an Irish journalist who was in town for the 2002 Soccer World Cup, married him three years later, and then moved to Ireland where she started writing prose. In November 2011, she completed a Master’s of Philosophy in Creative Writing from Trinity College. Her first novel, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World, was published in 2013. In 2014 it was nominated for the Atlantic Book Awards' Savage First Book Award and the Ontario Library Association's Evergreen Award. In 2015 Cinnamon Toast was a top ten choice in the American Library Association's Rainbow List of LGBT-themed books for young adults and children. Yes, I suppose that does read better in the third person.