Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Susan LeBlanc worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist for twenty years. She later taught journalism at the University of King's College. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the Budge Wilson Short Fiction Prize, through the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. She was selected for the 2022 Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program. LeBlanc lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. This is her first novel.