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Background

Born Connie Hatley in

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, Saskatchewan, she was raised in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta by parents in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Her family later settled back in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where she later married her husband Gordon Gault. They moved to Regina in 1974, where Connie Gault received a degree from the University of Regina in 1984.

Writing

Gault published her first short story in ''

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'' in 1981. She has since published two volumes of short stories, as well as publishing stories in literary magazines and anthologies. Her debut short story collection ''Some of Eve's Daughters'' won a Saskatchewan Writers' Guild award, and her second collection ''Inspection of a Small Village'' won a City of Regina Book Award. Her plays have been produced by theatre companies in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and have been broadcast on CBC Radio and the

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. Her first novel ''Euphoria'' was published by Coteau Books in 2009, and won that year's Saskatchewan Book Award. ''A Beauty'' followed in 2015. She was also a fiction editor of ''Grain'' in the 1990s.

Works

Short story collections

*''Some of Eve's Daughters'' (1987) *''Inspection of a Small Village'' (1996)

Plays

*''Sky'' (1989) *''The Soft Eclipse'' (1990) *''Otherwise Bob'' (1999) *''Red Lips'' (2002)

Novels

*''Euphoria'' (2009) *''A Beauty'' (2015)

References

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