Gwen is descended from Irish tenant farmers and English Quakers. Her storytelling influences include soul searching, an interest in bygone days, and the complexities of living a life. Fascinated by the landscape of human tenacity, she writes about women navigating the social restrictions of their era. Gwen now lives with her husband on a small rural homestead in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region. She wrote Unrest and The Last Hoffman
while residing in Whitby.