WAYNE GRADY is the author of 16 books of non-fiction and 3 novels. He is also an award-winning translator: his translation of Antonine Maillet’s On the Eighth Day won the Governor General’s Award in 1989. His novel Emancipation Day won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2013, and his most recent novel, The Good Father, was published in 2021. His book about the pandemic, Pandexicon: How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality, will be published by Greystone Books in spring 2023.