CAROL SHABEN is an award-winning author and journalist. She is the author of Into the Abyss, winner of the Edna Stabler National Award for Creative Nonfiction and finalist for the BC Book Prize Herbert Evans Non-Fiction Award, and the co-author of The Marriott Cell, longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize, a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year, a national bestseller, and recipient of the Ontario Historical Society Huguenot Award. She is the recipient of two National Magazine Awards. She was a longtime Faculty Editor at the Banff Centre's journalism program and has taught at the University of British Columbia's School of Creative Writing.