BARCLAY, BYRNA is an award-winning author of novels, short story collections and a playscript. The House of the White Elephant, loosely based on her paternal ancestry, is her tenth publication and was the Fiction Winner of the 2016 Whistler Independent Book Awards. Byrna has served as president of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and was editor of Freelance, the Guild’s newsletter, and fiction editor of Grain, its literary journal, and has been vice-chair of the Saskatchewan Arts Board. In 2005, she was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.