Carol Bruneau is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of short fiction, After the Angel Mill (1995) and Depth Rapture (1998), and three novels. Purple for Sky (2000) (published in the U.S. as A Purple Thread for Sky), won the 2001 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award, a distinction shared only by Alistair MacLeod for his IMPAC-Dublin Prize-winning No Great Mischief.

In 2005, she published her second novel, Berth (Cormorant). Recently her third and most critically acclaimed work, Glass Voices (Cormorant) appeared. In addition to her appearances at the 2007 Eden Mills Festival and the International Festival of Authors, Glass Voices was chosen as The Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books of the Year. The Halifax Coast called it “a wonderfully crafted novel that follows in the tradition of Margaret Laurence and Carol Shields.”

Considered "one of the brightest lights of Atlantic fiction" by acclaimed novelist Joan Clark, Bruneau’s stories have been anthologized in Victory Meat, edited by Lynn Coady, and Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland, edited by Lesley Choyce.

Bruneau teaches classes and workshops in fiction writing, and has also worked as a photo editor and a journalist. A mother of three, she lives in the neighbourhood of Halifax where she grew up, and shares a home with her journalist husband, their musician sons, lots of plants, and a small flock of animals.

In Progress:

Untitled:
A Novel

Fiction:

Glass Voices:
A Novel
(Cormorant, Fall 2007)

• Globe and Mail, Top 100 Books of 2007
• Halifax Chronicle Herald, Top Picks 2007

Berth:
A Novel
(Cormorant, Fall 2005)

The Tarot Reader
Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland
(Lesley Choyce, Editor, Goose Lane Editions, 2001)

Why Men Fish Where They Do
(Gaspereau Press, 2001, chapbook)

Purple for Sky
(Cormorant, Canada, and Carrol & Graf, US, 2000)

• 2001 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
• 2001 Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)

Depth Rapture
(Cormorant, 1998)

First You See a Light
Gifts to Last
(Goose Lane Editions, 1996)

After the Angel Mill
(Cormorant, 1995)