AMI McKAY is the author of three bestselling novelsтАФThe Birth House, The Virgin Cure, and The Witches of New YorkтАФas well as the novella, Half Spent Was the Night. Her memoir, Before My Time (originally titled Daughter of Family G), was named a CBC Best Book of 2019. McKay is also a playwright, composer, and essayist.┬аHer non-fiction work has appeared in Elle Canada, The Independent, Canadian Living, and Chatelaine. Born and raised in the Midwest, she now lives in Nova Scotia.