Merrily Weisbord was a finalist for the 2010 Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize for The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das, which is about her decade-long friendship with the beloved and controversial Indian writer. Her other books include The Strangest Dream, Our Future Selves, and Dogs with Jobs, for which Weisbord also wrote and created a TV series that aired on the Life Network, CBC, PBS, Oxygen, National Geographic US, and National Geographic International. She lives in Montreal.