About the Author

Melanie Little, a former figure skater, has lived in Timmins, Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Vancouver, and currently resides in Ottawa. She has worked as a tour guide, teacher, museum guard, bartender, dance instructor, stage manager, concierge, and a tulip promoter. Her stories have been published in Scribner's Best of Fiction Workshops (1998) and Outskirts: Women Writing from Small Places (2002).

Reviews

Confidence is an exciting, complex work. It's full of ambition, energy and thoughtful scope. While despising the all-too-familiar phrase, 'deceptively simple, ' it does apply here in the best possible way, because, as Little gains full control of her craft, she could very well become the Alice Munro of our generation...Little's ability to weave outside the novel form is strong and Confidence is worth your hard-won, book-buying bucks.-- "Globe and Mail"

...Confidence is overwhelmingly successful.--Fiona Foster