Alan Cumyn is the author of several highly acclaimed but wildly different literary novels. Burridge Unbound and Man of Bone both won the Ottawa Book Award and were respectively shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Award. His first novel for children, The Secret Life of Owen Skye, won the Mr. Christie’s Book Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. His new novel for young adults is Tilt.