Nina Newington is a forest protector, an award winning author and a gardener. British by birth, she lived in Hong Kong, Germany, Israel, England, Nigeria and the US before immigrating to Canada. She and her wife live in a ramshackle farmhouse on the North Mountain of Nova Scotia on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw people. Her second novel, Cardinal Divide, was published in 2020 by Guernica Editions.